My eyes were all wrong for a cowboy

Sometimes they were black and blue

And how I come to this prairie town

Is something that I never knew

A kid in love with the jukebox

Watchin' the Alberta sky

Never suspected a pain so deep

That all of the tears had dried.



Sayonara, all the bad times

You loved this Maverick so true

Mama and daddy you never passed on

The wrong that was done to you



My mother and father were born

On the western Canadian shore

But when the bombs fell on Pearl Harbour

That didn't matter no more

And all that they had was just taken

No bill of sale and no deal

And all that they had was each other

And workin' another man's field



Sayonara, all the bad times

You loved this Maverick so true

Mama and daddy you never passed on

The wrong that was done to you



Now the war is a long distant memory

It's passed like a winter snow

And all of those years my folks raised me

There was no place for hatred to grow

And feeling like I don't belong here

Is a feeling that I've never known

I feel the same breath on my face as you do

Whenever Alberta winds blow.



Sayonara, all the bad times

You loved this Maverick so true

Mama and daddy you never passed on

The wrong that was done to you