[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
Am Am/G
Outside my window lies the canyon
F G D
Red and turquoise, orange and blue
Am Am/G
Wandering through the painted desert
F G D
Like some bewildered drunken fool
F Am
The Colorado deep within her
F Am
Cuts and rolls and sings and plays
F Am
Waterfalls and purple rainbows
F G Dsus4 D
In her mists of silver haze
[Verse 2]
Am Am/G
Once I knew a man who traveled
F G D
Down her waters every day
Am Am/G
Made his living guiding strangers
F G D
Where his shadows knew the way
F Am
On the borders of the rivеr
F Am
Lit the fires and smoked thе pipes
F Am
Told the travelers all his stories
F G Dsus4
Dared the men to win the prize
[Chorus 1]
C
White with foam the water danced
F
Over rocks and under skies
C
Blue with summer, drenched in rain
F G Dsus2
Faster than I realized
[Verse 3]
Am Am/G
He was hard about his work
F G D
Soft about the columbines
Am Am/G
Spoke about Apache friends
F G D
Missed the years of silver mines
F Am
When the west was far away
F Am
Safe from eastern peddlers
F Am
When the canyon was his own
F G D
Far from mindless meddlers
[Chorus 2]
C
In his arms I often listened
F
Sharing every dream he dreamed
C
A summer lover soon to fly
F G Dsus4 D
Far from where the moonlight gleamed
[Verse 4]
Am Am/G
I have often thought of him
F G D
Riding down the river's heart
Am Am/G
Living for the plunging waters
F G D
Prying mysteries apart
F Am
Is he still alive and smiling
F Am
Through a hazy waterfall
F Am
Sometimes I think it was madness
F G Dsus2
To have left his lonesome call
F G Dsus2
To sail beyond the canyon wall
F G Dsus2
Out to where coyotes call
F G Dsus2
Back then, when I knew it all
[Outro]
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