Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - Dusty Skies

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - Dusty Skies (1941)

[click watch in high quality for better audio]

Dusty skies I can't see nothing in sight
Good old Dan you'll have to guide me right
If we lose our way the cattle will stray
And we'll lose them all tonight
Cause all of the grass and water's gone
We'll have to keep movin' on
Sand blowin' I just can't breathe in this air
Thought it would soon be clear and fair
But dust storms played hell with land and folks as well
Got to be moving somewhere

Hate to leave the old ranch so bare
But I've got to be moving somewhere
So get along doggies we're moving off of this range
Never thought as how I'd make a change
But the blue skies have failed so we're on our last trail
Underneath these dusty skies
This ain't tears in my eyes
Just sand from these dusty skies

• Category

  Music

[Wisterialodge]

Written by Cindy Walker who wrote "Distant Drums" and "Dream Baby" for Roy orbison

[dgtxdutch]

Have danced a many a time to this great tune and can see it all in my mind every time! God bless Cindy and Bob and the Playboys!

[Junk3t]

Brilliant choice of video! Very hypnotic and rather funny at the end.

[Junk3t]

Slow-motion space-shuttle lift-off in reverse. Its sky-related, I guess. Its certainly hypnotic to watch while listening to the song.

[Bud Lite]

me like it

[dcgilleland]

Tommy knew how to make you "feel it"! It is told that the first time he sang this song, he had tears in his eyes as he knew what it was about for sure! Tommy Duncan, Whitney Texas. Close...but none like him

[BrickPa]

Many a man has had to trust his horse to pick the right trail when conditions were bad. And not just horses but other animals have saved a man's hide when the going got tough. Look up the name "Balto" some day as an example.

[peterthomas583]

Dear eattastypie

Brilliant! Thanks for posting

[matt605]

I do not hear a "g" in the word "change" in the last verse. I've always know this lyric to be "as how I'd make a chain." Why must "Dan" guide him?

[Sawmillman68]

Tommy Duncan is just totally awesome! My Dad turned me onto this rare gem.

[timboss56 .]

this song is beautiful.. but the video???

[MrPinklady2010]

my husband like this song very much..