When I Was a Girl in Colorado - Judy Collins

When I was a girl in Colorado

Rivers danced on canyon walls

Paintbrush nodded in the springtime

I could hear the bluebirds' calls

When I was a girl in Colorado

Winter held me in its arms

Summers rocked me like a lover

I could never come to harm

When I was a girl in Colorado

I could conquer anything

I could fly with wings of silver

I could whisper, I could sing

Will you take me to the mountains

Before another summer ends

We can catch the outbound zephyr

We can travel like the wind

When I moved out to the desert

Forty years to lose my soul

Somewhere back there in her rivers

Colorado made me whole

When I go back to the mountains

I always find a windy hill

Watch the sunset over Long’s Peak

Ski those slopes and feel the thrill

Will you take me to the mountains

Before another summer ends

We can catch the outbound zephyr

We can travel like the wind

When I was a girl in Colorado

I knew enough to fall in love

Like the bluebirds in the pine trees

Like the snowfall from above

Will you take me to the mountains

Before another summer ends

We can catch the outbound zephyr

We can travel like the wind

Like the wind

Like the wind

Like the wind