My Proud Mountains

My home is Colorado with her proud mountains tall
Where the rivers like gypsies down her black canyons fall
Well, I'm a long way from Denver with a long way to go
So lend an ear to my singin' 'cause I'll be back no more

Well, I left as a young man not a full seventeen
With nothin' for company but the wind and a dream
About all the fast ladies and livin' I'd find
When I left my proud mountains and rivers behind

Well, I rolled and I rambled like a leaf in the wind
And I found my fast ladies and some hard livin' men
Well, I sometimes went hungry with my pockets all bare
And I sometimes had good luck with money to spare

And I made me some friends Lord, whom I won't soon forget
Well, some are down under and some are ramblin' yet
But as for me, well I'm headed for home
Back to high Colorado never more for to roam

So friends when my time comes as surely it will
Just carry my body out to some lonesome hill
And lay me down easy where the cool rivers run
With only my mountains between me and the sun

My home is Colorado



Credits
Writer(s): John Townes Van Zandt
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