JOHN DENVER - ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH (1972)

[CT #2]
[INTRO]
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He was born in the summer, of his twenty seventh year;
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Coming home to a place he'd never been before
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He left yesterday behind him,
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you might say he was born again
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You might say he found a key for every door

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When he first came to the mountains, his life was far away;
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On the road      and hanging by a song
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But the string's already broken, and he doesn't really care;
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It keeps changing fast, and it don't last for long

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But the Colorado Rocky Mountain high
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I've seen it raining fire in the sky
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The shadow from the starlight is softer than a lul la by 
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Rocky Mountain high, Colorado
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Rocky Mountain high, Colorado

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He climbed cathedral mountains, he saw silver clouds below;
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he saw everything as far as you can see
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And they say that he got crazy once,
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and he tried to touch the sun;
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And he lost a friend but kept the memory

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Now he walks in quiet solitude, the forests and the streams;
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seeking grace      in every step he takes 
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His sight has turned inside himself to try and understand;
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the serenity of a clear blue mountain lake

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And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high
     G               A           D
I've seen it raining fire in the sky
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talk to God and listen to the casuuuaaal replyyyyyyyy
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Rocky Mountain high, Colorado
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Rocky Mountain high, Colorado

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Now his life is full of wonder,
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but his heart still knows some fear;
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of a simple thing he cannot comprehend
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Why they try to tear the mountains down,
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To bring in a couple more;
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more people, more scars upon the land

        G        A              D
And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high
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I've seen it raining fire in the sky
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I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly
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Rocky Mountain high
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And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high
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I've seen it raining fire in the sky
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Friends around the campfire and every body's high

[OUTRO]
               D         Em    G
Rocky Mountain high, Colorado
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Rocky Mountain high, Colorado
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Rocky Mountain high, Colorado
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Rocky Mountain high, Colorado
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Rocky Mountain high, Colorado . . .

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