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This is an original song written for Las Vegas, New Mexico. It’s acoustic folk in the style of a 1970s singer-songwriter, built around the Gallinas River, the Old Plaza, Bridge Street, and the outlaw history that still lingers below Hermit’s Peak.
Whether your family has been here for generations or you passed through once and never quite shook the place, this song is for you.
Lyrics
The steel lines hum beneath the plains
Where the prairie meets the cooling shade
No neon signs or painted games
Just the price the mountain trade has made
Old Plaza walls of dusty red
They stand where buffalo used to run
And a quiet spirit overhead
Is drying in the high-altitude sun
Oh, Las Vegas, under the western sky
Where the Gallinas River flows on by
You don’t shine like gold, you don’t pretend
You’re just a resting place for a traveling friend
Oh, yes, a resting place for a traveling friend
I walked down Bridge Street in the calm
Past Victorian windows in the air
And I felt a strange and gentle balm
For a soul that was heavy with despair
They say Billy the Kid once rode through here
And Doc Holliday drew his line
But all that remains of yesterday’s fear
Is the wind blowing through the pine
Oh, Las Vegas, under the western sky
Where the Gallinas River flows on by
You don’t shine like gold, you don’t pretend
You’re just a resting place for a traveling friend
Oh, yes, a resting place for a traveling friend
And the world keeps turning fast and bright
Chasing things it will never hold
But give me a porch in the evening light
And a tale that is simple and old
Now the train whistle blows out near the meadow
Calling the workers back home to rest
Shadows grow long on the Hermit’s Peak
As the red sun sinks in the west
Let the big city dream its restless dream
I’ll stay where the air is clear and clean
La la la, la la la…
Just a resting place… where the mountains remember your name.
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