Dwight Yoakam - The Late Great Golden State lyrics

In the late great golden state

It's getting hard to negotiate

When you're one slip

From a grim fate

In the late great golden state

In the late great golden state

I don't do much

But I'm always late

I ain't old, I'm just out of date

In the late great golden state

I caught one last glimpse

Of a palomino

When I drove out west

To see the purple sage

Then as canyons burned

And the mountains crumbled

The last cowboy band

Left the stage

I ain't old, I'm just out of date

In the late great golden state

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I caught one last glimpse

Of a palomino

When I drove out west

To see the purple sage

Then as the canyons burned

And the mountains crumbled

The last cowboy band

Left the stage

Yeah, the late great golden state

Is a nice place for a clean slate

But leave your expectations

At the gate

Of the late great golden state

'Cause they can pack you up

And send you home in a crate

Stamped the late great

Golden state...