Adeline Foster - ~WIDE OPEN SPACES

There is a land where mountain peaks
Reach snowcapped arms on high;
Give me wide open spaces of this world.
There is a land where ocean waves
Lap endlessly against the sky;
Give me wide open spaces of this world.

You can have your city life;
I’ll be far from cares and strife
In my wide open spaces of this world.

There is a land where mountain breeze
Hums symphonies among the trees;
Give me wide open spaces of this world.
There is a land where waterfalls’
Cascades echo canyon walls;
Give me wide open spaces of this world.

You can have your city life;
I’ll be far from cares and strife
In my wide open spaces of this world.

There is a land where sunset’s blaze
Defies mere human lavish praise;
Give me wide open spaces of this world.
There is a land where snowdrifts white
Reflect the shifting northern lights;
Give me wide open spaces of this world.

You can have your city life;
I’ll be far from cares and strife
In my wide open spaces of this world.

Here in this land where gracious peace
Invites the heart to find release
In wide open spaces of this world,
Here in this land where heaven’s calm
Scribes upon the heart a psalm,
I laude wide open spaces of this world.

You can have your city life;
I’ll be far from cares and strife
In my wide open spaces of this world.

Written in 1973.

Adeline Foster

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