Song Description
Uptempo techno pop song with a classic chord progression.
| Song Length |
3:49 |
Genre |
Pop - General, Electronic - Trance |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Subject |
General, General |
Similar Artists |
Katy Perry |
| Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
Lyrics
"How The West Was Won"
© 2011 Capers Simmons (ASCAP)
VERSE I
It's a Ghost Dance prophecy blazoned on a buffalo hide.
It's a Monterrey fisherman, setting his sails on the tide.
It's a Forty-Nine miner tearing down a mountain
For gold that he never finds.
It's a Hollywood movie star, burning out her name in lights.
CHORUS I
This is how the west was won
With bullets and blood and a hundred promises broke.
This is how the west was won
With a covered Conestoga full of the folly and hope.
This is how the west was won
From Route 66, to the badlands down to the coast.
This is how the west was won
Turn your eye to the sun, strap a gun to your hip and let's go.
VERSE II
It's a Detroit muscle car burning down the 101.
It's a teenage dropout trading his tomorrow for guns.
It's where the children of slaves play Japanese games
In American towns with Mexican names.
It's the guts to go when you don't know the way.
~ CHORUS I ~
CHORUS II
This is how the West was won:
By a family in Manzanar, waiting a war out for freedom.
This is how the West was won:
By a little big massacre and coyote smugglers on the Rio.
This is how the West was won:
By twenty-some years on a trail of tears and bones.
This is how the West was won:
Turn your eye to the sun, strap a gun to your hip and let's go.
~ CHORUS I ~