(Emmylouy Harris Paul Kennerley)

I hear the sound of sorrow in the wind

Blowing down from every mile I've ever been

Calling me out on some road that just won't end

Where the sweetheart rides the rodeo again



A thousand nights a thousand towns I took the bows

But there is no compensation for me now

Out along the highway where the west was won

No matter how fast I ride or far I run



Waiting for the sweetheart of the rodeo

They're comin' down from Tonopah to Tupelo

She'll come to town to ride the radio

Like she's slidin' down the walls of Jericho

There goes the sweetheart of the rodeo



I stepped into the light you left behind

I stood there where all the world could see me shine

Oh I was on my way to you to make you mine

But I took the longest road that I could find