My Proud Mountains

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

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

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

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I made me some friends, Lord, that I won't soon forget
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Some are down under and some are rambling yet
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But as for me I'm headed for home
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Back to high Colorado never more for to roam

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

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Yeah, My home is Colorado