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