Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Opening The West, artist - Johnny Cash. Date of issue: 06.08.1972
Song language: English
Opening The West |
| And the shining Rocky Mountains looked down on the people coming |
| Strong and sturdy freedom lovin' settlers cowboys pioneers |
| Now no foreign crown would rule them |
| Now a nation strong was standing even bigger was it growing |
| Added Iowa, Wisconsin then broke through the shining mountains |
| Staked a claim on California |
| Panned the gold out of its rivers irrigated desert valleys |
| Oregon, Minnesota, Kansas now were added to the total |
| Making 34 to number of the States now in the Union |
| And the years 1860 to 65 the history books’re full of it |
| The sadness the heartbreak and the songs of that period |
| Tell us of a sadness and of a heartbreak when the nation was torn asunder |