She Came from the Mountains

She came from the mountains

Rocky Mountains eagle high

She's from where the mountains

Lean up to the sky

Now she's back among the Rockies

Where mountain thunders cry

Now the wind from off the mountains

Wails a sad goodbye

Once in Colorado Springs, at the foot of old Pike's Peak

I met a Rocky mountain girl, to my soul her heart let speak

We went to tell her parents, and an old grandmother said

If you'll leave these mountains, girl, you'll wish that you were dead

The next day I took her with me, to my far-off Iowa home

Way out on the flatlands, where the mountain winds don't moan

Each footstep we took was happy, or at least, it shouldn't been

But I would find her listening for that same lone mountain wind

She came from the mountains

Rocky Mountains eagle high

She's from where the mountain

Lean up to the sky

Now she's back among the Rockies

Where mountain thunders cry

Now the wind from off the mountain

Wails a sad goodbye

Months passed as fast as antelopes, until one fatal dismal dawn

I walked to see morning sun, shine down on where she was gone

I'd known that lately she'd been sad, women sometimes get that way

I hadn't guessed how much was wrong until that fatal day

She had left the weeping letter, homesick with mountain names

She was somewhere in the Rockies and I knew I'd been to blame

So now in Colorado Springs, I wait near old Pike's Peak

Where once, I met a mountain girl, that mountain girl I seek

She came from the mountains

Rocky mountain eagle high

She's from where the mountain

Lean up to the sky

Now she's back among the Rockies

Where mountain thunders cry

Now the wind from off the mountain

Wails a sad goodbye