When I Was A Girl In Colorado

INTRO:
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C  F  C  G
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VERSE:
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When I was a girl in Colorado
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Rivers danced the canyon walls
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   Paintbrush nodded in the springtime
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 I could hear the bluebirds' calls


VERSE:
 C            F           C
When I was a girl in Colorado
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Winter held me in its arrrms

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Summers rocked me like a lover
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Am7       F         G      G  C
 I could never come to harm


VERSE:
 C            F           C
When I was a girl in Colorado
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Am       F           C
I could conquer anything
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Am       F                 C
I could fly with wings of silver
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Am       F           G        G F
I could whisper, I could sing


CHORUS:
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Will you take me to the mountains
Am         F             G  G  F
  Before another summer ends
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We can catch the outbound zephyr
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We can travel like the wind


VERSE:
 C      F                C
When I moved out to the desert
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 Am    F            C   C G  Am
Forty years to lose my sooul
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Somewhere back there in her rivers
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Colorado made me whole

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When I go back to the mountains
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Am        F         C   C G  G Am
I always find a windy  hiill
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Watch the sunset over Long's Peak
Am         F               G         G F
Ski those slopes and feel that thrill


CHORUS:
 F                       C       C
Will you take me to the mountains
Am        F             G  G  F
 Before another summer ends
F       G                  C
We can catch the outbound zephyr
  C G Am
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B|-------| 
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A -3-2-0-
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Am      F           G       G  C
We can travel like the wind


VERSE:
 C            F       C
When I was a girl in Colorado
  F G Am
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Am        F           C
I knew enough to fall in love
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Am        F                C
Like the bluebirds in the pine trees
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           F        G       G  F
Like the snowfall from above


CHORUS:
 F                       C
Will you take me to the mountains
Am        F             G  G
 Before another summer ends
F        G                  C
We can catch the outbound zephyr
  C G Am
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B|-------| 
G|-------| 
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A -3-2-0-
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Am      F           G       G
We can travel like the wind


OUTRO:
      F   F C C F
Like the wiiiiiind
          Am
Like the wiiiiiind
      C   C C G G  C  C  C
Like the wiiiiiind