Title: Alberta Rose
Songwriter/Artist: Mariel Buckle
Location: SymPul Studios, Calgary, AB
Five in the morning we hit black diamond
Just a kid then, I was half asleep
Took some coaxing to get me on the ice
Thought my skates had frozen to my feet
Ten years on now, I hit the highway
Chasing semi’s and their trailers in the dark
They pulled me into those northern prairies
Where the sunsets rise and fall over my heart
So you can keep your ocean coast
These open skies are wide enough for me
I ain’t ever seen that prairie rose
But Alberta, you made a wild one of me
I spent time away to see my country
Riding rail cars between Rockies and plains
I saw salmon jump, I even kissed the cod once
But I miss the foothills no where’s quite the same
So you can keep your ocean coast
These open skies are wide enough for me
I ain’t ever seen that prairie rose
But Alberta, you made a wild one of me
We used to get drunk down by the bow river
Staying up too late waiting for the sun
All those long nights between those great plains
They’ll stay with me wherever I may run
So you can keep your ocean coast
These open skies are wide enough for me
I ain’t ever seen that prairie rose
But Alberta, you made a wild one of me
So you can keep your ocean coast
These open skies are wide enough for me
I ain’t ever seen that prairie rose
But Alberta, you made a wild one of me
But Alberta, you made a wild one of me