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Runnin' Back to Idaho
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Fast Bluegrass about a bank robbery in the old West
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Acoustic country rock and bluegrass
I've been writing and performing for over 30 years. I'm hoping to get my songs more widely heard, and hopefully published / recorded.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic General
Charts
Peak #53
Peak in subgenre #17
Author
Dale Fisk
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1974
Uploaded
May 24, 2004
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MP3 2.4 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
Wanted to write a song about the old West
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RUNNIN' BACK TO IDAHO WE WERE ALMOST OUT OF OREGON, HEADED EAST OUT OF LaGRANDE RIDIN' FAST AND LOOKIN' BACK THE WAY WE CAME WE THOUGHT WE'D PULLED A GOOD ONE, 'CAUSE IT WENT THE WAY WE PLANNED 'TILL I FOUND OUT SOME DAMNED FARMER KNEW MY NAME SO WE CUT THE WIRE TO BAKER, AND WE HEADED FOR THE SNAKE LOADED DOWN WITH EVERY PENNY WE COULD TAKE RUNNIN' BACK TO IDAHO, RUNNIN' FROM THE SEEDS WE'VE SOWN BACK TO IDAHO, IT'S THE ONLY LIFE WE'VE KNOWN PICKIN' GOLD FROM RICH MEN'S POCKETS TO SPEND IT FOR OUR OWN MAKIN' TRACKS, RUNNIN' BACK TO IDAHO OUR HORSES THEY WERE GOOD ONES, AND THEY DID NOT LET US DOWN GOT US SAFE ACROSS THOSE MOUNTAINS WITH OUR LOAD FOUND THE RIVER AT HELLS CANYON, IT WAS RUNNIN' HIGH AND BROWN AND ACROSS IT WAS THE END OF OUR LONG ROAD WE HAD TO CROSS THAT RIVER LOADED DOWN WITH CHAINS OF GOLD HAD TO MAKE IT HOME AGAIN TO IDAHO CHORUS WE STARTED 'CROSS THAT RIVER, BUT THE HORSES SANK HALFWAY SO WE SWAM THE OUTLAW RIVER ON OUR OWN 'THO WE ALL GOT TO THE BANK ALIVE, OUR GOLD WAS SWEPT AWAY NOW WE'RE BROKE AND EMPTY-HANDED GOIN' HOME WE CUT THE WIRE TO BAKER, AND WE HEADED FOR THE SNAKE LOADED DOWN WITH EVERY PENNY WE COULD TAKE CHORUS
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