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Run Your Luck

from Mill Creek by Mark Mitten

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"Run Your Luck" was inspired by Larry McMurtry's classic book Horseman, Pass By (which the movie Hud with Paul Newman was based on.) I'd read the book years before, and was moved by it. I found out about the movie version during this time period and saw it. It was pretty good, and was a good effort to capture the book's essence. The imagery, riding caprock, stock tanks, and the mesquite in Texas, comes from the book. The chorus didn't, I'm not sure where. Except pointing my mind through that reckless nature, through the eyes of the West.

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green mesquite
in all this texas heat
and push them cattle in
and we push them cattle in

ride the caprock and we
ride the southern ridge
we slowly ride along
and we ride alone

you seen the brazos
and you've seen the rio grande
you been to denver
and you've seen cheyenne
you put the miles on that ol' pickup truck
you've run your horses
and you've run your luck

stock tank's cold & take your
saddle off & the sorrel rolls
let him rest awhile
and you rest awhile

just three more miles and there's the
cattle pens, vaccine & then
pull the irons from the fire
yeah the irons from the fire

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from Mill Creek, released January 1, 2007

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Mark Mitten Winsted, Minnesota

Singer-songwriter. A blend of folk and folk-western. Also lead singer of Atomicana.

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