Just let me live my life as I’ve begun;

And give me work that’s open to the sky;

Make me a partner of the wind and sun

And I won’t ask a life that’s soft and high.

Make me as big and open as the plains;

As honest as the horse between my knees;

Clean as the wind that blows behind the rains

Free as the hawk that circles down the breeze.

Just keep an eye on all that’s done and said;

Just right me sometimes when I turn aside;

And guide me on the long dim trail ahead

That stretches upward towards the Great Divide.