Road Song - Fernando Ortega

How I love these roads

Every far and lonely highway

Through basin and range

And a desert that never ends-

A sky so wide

You can feel your heart turn quiet

And then I listen

For the voices of my friends

One rides in the summer wind beside me

One flies with the stars

That set the wild night on fire

One runs close and steady as a river

I could drive for miles

Carried by that choir

From the hills of my hometown

To the Arizona canyons

From Chinle to Sky City

To the gorge of the Rio Grande-

The high and winding way

From Chimayo to Las Trampas

The long road bends

To the sweet sound of my friends

One’s up where the clouds brush the mountains

One rushes down a stream

Past the bright columbine —

I could drive for miles

Just thinking about them

How I love the road

And these true friends of mine

One rides in the summer wind beside me

One flies with the stars

That set the wild night on fire

One runs close and steady as a river

I could drive for miles

Carried by that choir