My Proud Mountains

My home is Colorado with her proud mountains tall

Where the rivers like gypsies down her black canyons fall

But I'm a long, long way from Denver with a long way to go

So lend an ear to my singing, cause I'll be back no more

Well, I left as a young man not a full seventeen

With nothing for company but the wind and a dream

About all those fast ladies and living I'd find

When I left my proud mountains and rivers behind

So I rolled and I rambled like a leaf in the wind

Well, I found my fast ladies and some hard living men

Well, I sometimes went hungry with my pockets all bare

Lord, I sometimes had good luck with money to spare

Well, I made me some friends lord that I won't soon forget

Well, some are down under, some are rambling yet

Well, as for me, I'm headed for home

Back to high Colorado, never more for to roam

So friends, when my time comes, as surely it will

You just carry my body out to some lonesome hill

And lay me down easy where those cool rivers run

With only my mountains 'tween me and the sun

Well my home is Colorado