Day 43 (D-20) Yellowstone, here we come!

This is where we are heading next: YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK.
Maybe at this end of the long August 15th weekend, you can find some time to sit back and watch this short video on Yellowstone. How about a special treat today? As an introduction to Yellowstone, here's a 4-minute video created by National Geographic France. It was just put on youtube on July 14th, 2019.  The subtitles are in FRENCH, but you can choose English subtitles if you prefer!  My suggestion : listen and read the French subtitles and then click the subtitle icon at the bottom of the screen on the right and listen a second time with English subtitles.  You can find 8 minutes to watch it twice, can't you?

 Histoire du parc national de Yellowstone (in 4:07 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69pZHAKDQsI
With this introduction to Yellowstone, you'll be better prepared for the English information you'll read and listen to in the blog posts of the days to come.  

But before we head into Yellowstone, one more cowboy song. 
This is the Last Cowboy Song (two versions) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKeDcF1v_Y4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rou4IJsIIPo

Lyrics: 
The Last Cowboy Song
The Highwaymen
This is the last cowboy song
The end of a hundred year Waltz
The voices sound sad as they're singin' along
Another piece of America's lost
He rides the feed lots, clerks in the markets
On weekends sellin' tobacco and beer
And his dreams of tomorrow, surrounded by fences
But he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't here
He blazed the trail with Lewis and Clark
And eyeball to eyeball, old Wyatt backed down
He stood shoulder to shoulder with Travis in Texas
And rode with the 7th when Custer went down
This is the last cowboy song
The end of a hundred year Waltz
The voices sound sad as they're singin' along
Another piece of America's lost
Remington showed us how he looked on canvas
And Louis Lamour has told us his tale
Me and Johnny and Waylon and Kris sing about him
And wish to God we could have ridden his trail

The old Chisholm trail is covered in concrete now
And they truck 'em to market in fifty-foot rigs
They blow by his marker never slowing to read it
Like living and dying was all he did

This is the last cowboy song
The end of a hundred year Waltz
The voices sound sad as they're singing' along
Another piece of America's lost

This is the last cowboy song....

This is the last cowboy song....
Paroliers : Ed Bruce / Ron Peterson
Paroles de The Last Cowboy Song © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
My best,
Jane
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-- heading = going
-- sit back =  Do you remember this phrasal verb?  To sit in a relaxed way.  So sit back and and enjoy the video...with French subtitles (the first time!)

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