August

[Verse 1]
Pullin' bulls, haulin' bails, grains about done ripenin'
Summer wanes, so lifts the veil on the hauntin' August's brought me
Foreboding feeling in my bones insists there's weather comin'
Though the meadowlarks are callin', cows ain't ballin', no thunderhead

[Chorus]
Goodbye banjo moon, hiya buckskin
Harvest's starting
There's fires in Montana again
Haze hangs heavy like a heartache
Stinging in my eyes
Prairie gold, hay fever, I'm grieving
August, mmm

[Verse 2]
Bracin' in the stillness makes a gust out of a breath of wind
Stirring up old settled dust summoning ghosts of loss and false promise
Farming accidents, red bird matches the eighth month killed my innocence
Learned sorrow's love with no home, and you don't always reap what you sow

[Chorus]
So goodbye banjo moon, hiya buckskin
Harvest's starting
There's fires in Montana again
Haze hangs heavy like a heartache
Stinging in my eyes
Prairie gold, hay fever, I'm grieving
August, mmm

[Bridge]
River's low, river's slow, but she won't stop for nothin'
In that fact I have found hope, just as I've found tough lovin'

[Chorus]
Oh, goodbye banjo moon, hiya buckskin
Harvest's starting
There's fires in Montana again
Haze hangs heavy like a heartache
Stinging in my eyes
Prairie gold, hay fever, I'm grieving
August
Ooooh, ooh