Well there ain’t much sun, this time of year
There’s more hours of work, than light around here
And now the hay’s runnin’ low, cause the summer was dry
But I’m a northern man, I’m too stubborn to die
And I wrote your name in the frost, of my passenger window
Just to have you by my side, when it’s forty below
But it’ll soon fade away, in the pale sunrise
Like the day you ponied up, and you rode off ropin’ skies
And it’s gonna be another, long hard winter, east of the great divide
where the skies are snowin’, and the winds are blowin'
down off the mountain side
Well there’s two things I know that’ll break a man
one’s a broken heart inside
And the other’s a long hard winter, east of the great divide
Steers didn’t bring much, cause the market’s been down
And there ain’t much help, this far from town
And now the truck won’t start, cause the battery’s froze
Well I could damn this life, but it’s the life I chose
And now I hope you’re doin’ well, out in Southern Califon’
Or in North Carolin’, where the weather’s warm
cause now I’m froze to the bone, on the eastern line
Yeah wherever you are, well I hope you’re doin’ fine
Cause it’s gonna be another, long hard winter, east of the great divide
where the skies are snowin’, and the winds are blowin'
down off the mountain side
Well there’s two things I know that’ll break a man
one’s a broken heart inside
And the other’s a long hard winter, east of the great divide
And the other’s a long hard winter, east of the great divide