Key: Bb minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
my window lies the canyon
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Red and turquoise, orange and blue
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Wandering through the painted desert
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Like some bewildered drunken fool
Verse 2
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The Colorado deep within her
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Cuts and rolls and sings and plays
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Waterfalls and purple rainbows
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In her mist of sil ver haze
Verse 3
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Once I knew a man who traveled
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Down her waters every day
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Made his living guiding strangers
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Where his shadows knew the way
Verse 4
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On the borders of the rivers
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Lit the fires and smoked the pipes
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Told the travellers all his stories
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Dared them all to win the prize
Verse 5
foam, the water danced
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Faster than I realized
Verse 6
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He was hard about his work
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Soft about the columbines
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Spoke about Apache friends
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Missed the years of silver mines
Verse 7
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Safe from eastern peddlers
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When the canyon was his own
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Far from mindless med dlers
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A summer lover soon to fly
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Far from where the moonlight gleamed
Verse 8
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Riding down the river's heart
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Prying mysteries apart
Verse 9
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Is he still alive and smiling
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Sometimes I think it was madness
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To have left his lonesome call
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To sail beyond the canyon wall
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Out to where coyotes call
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Back then, when I knew
Outro 1
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