Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Taken from the album Singing Bones (2003)
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Brett Sparks – vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, drums
Rennie Sparks – lyrics, autoharp

On my way out to the gold mines
Crossing the western hills
Me and my little dog Clyde
And a horse named Prancing Bill
I slept under the stars
I heard the coyotes sing
And the sun was a golden coin
Shining just for me
The sun shone just for me
But high up in the mountains
Bill began to foam
And as I whipped and tugged him
He bucked against his load
Around a hairpin turn
The wagon tumbled o’er
And down the jagged rocks
Bill fell with all I owned
He fell with all I owned
As the sun died out
Coyotes began to howl
Little Clyde’s head rose
And answered with a growl
But when I bent to call him
He snapped at me and ran
And then I was alone
In the silent rocks and sand
By my fifth day of walking
I was crawling on my knees
In handfuls of dust
From between the dying weeds
I laid down in the dirt
As the sun lost her glow
But I was welcomed in the dark
By the song of a hundred toads