Original Song Lyrics: Written by M. S. McKenzie, All Rights Reserved
"In The Heart of My Wild Idaho"
[Intro: Acoustic Instrumental]
[Verse 1]
Beneath the northern morning light
Where Pend Oreille's waters shine
Through mists that dance like silver veils
Upon deep forests dark with pine
While Coeur d'Alene lies dreaming
Within its bed of emerald hills
Where ospreys wheel in a golden dawn
And a lone loon’s call…
…breaks the air so still—
[Chorus]
In the heart of my wild Idaho
Where mountain spirits dwell
Your untamed beauty holds us close
With a thousand tales to tell
[Verse 2]
The Sawtooth Range stands guard above
Where still waters of Redfish Lake lie below
And an alpenglow paints the evening peaks
In a hundred shades between rose and gold
We head down Salmon's rock-strewn path
Through canyonlands deep and wide
Where battle cries of Nez Perce Warriors
Still echoing against the canyon-side
[Breakdown: musical interlude with violin and harmonica]
[Verse 3]
Across the barren and devastated land
Where volcanoes shaped earth and stone
Through Craters of The Moon’s monument
And the silence of the wind makes its home
Then Shoshones' waters take their plunge
Through curtains of rainbow-painted spray
Like ribbons drawn through canyon walls
Where the afternoon sun and waters play
[Chorus]
In the heart of my wild Idaho
Where mountain spirits dwell
Your untamed beauty holds us close
With a thousand tales to tell
[Verse 4]
The Palouse’s grassy hills flow endlessly
Like waves of gold upon the land
Their amber grasses bend and sway
And sultry summer breezes fanned
While Snake River winds its way below
Through layered, basaltic canyon walls
Where eagles ride the thermal winds
And the late afternoon’s shadow falls
[Chorus]
In the heart of my wild Idaho
Where mountain spirits dwell
Your untamed beauty holds us close
With a thousand tales to tell
[Outro: Instrumental]
