When shadows creep across the hills,
and purple streaks the sky,
when cattle bunch up closer for the night
That's when you hear the whipoorwill
start singing sweet and high,
That's when you hear the prairie lullaby.
The breezes play, the branches sway
somewhere a coyote cries,
Ahee oh loh di, it's a prairie lullaby.
When later on the sun is gone
The campfire fights the dark,
And a million stars are twinkling in the sky
That's when you see a cowboy reach
for his old mouth harp
That's when you'll hear the prairie lullaby
The breezes play the branches sway
and somewhere a coyote cries
Ahee oh loh di, it's a prairie lullaby
Ahee oh loh di, it's a prairie lullaby.