In my last post, I talked about growing up in the small town of Vernon, Texas. The Dixie Chicks sang a song titled "Wide Open Spaces." This was popular the year that I lost Daddy, 1998. I know how much Mother and Daddy loved me. I remember the day clearly that they drove off and left me at college, but they gave me a strong foundation....in the place that I came from which was in THE WIDE-OPEN SPACES.
WIDE OPEN SPACES
written by Susan Gibson
sung by The Dixie Chicks
Who doesn't know what I'm talking about?
Who's never left home? Who's never struck out?
To find a dream and a life of their own
A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone
Many precede and many will follow
A young girl's dreams no longer hollow
It takes the shape of a place out West
But what it holds for her, she hasn't yet guessed
She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the high stakes
She traveled this road as a child
Wide-eyed and grinning, she never tired
But now she won't be coming back with the rest
If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test
She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the high stakes
She knows the high stakes
And as her folks drive away, her dad yells, "Check the oil!"
Mom stares out the window and says, "I'm leavin' my girl"
She said, "It didn't seem like that long ago"
When she stood there and let her own folks know
She needed wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the high stakes
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes (wide open spaces)
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes (wide open spaces)
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