Leave me in the Rockies

Randy Helton and Jerry Firth

©2007

D C D

I’m rolling down that highway and the land begins to rise

G D

The Great Basin falls behind me as the Rockies fill my eyes

G D

The smell of sagebrush lingers as the pine trees come in view

A D

I never want to leave again. My traveling days are through

D A G D

I’ve got beargrass and sagebrush and tall pine trees

Bm G A

White rushing waters to give my heart ease

G D G

In these Idaho mountains, it’s where I feel the best

D A D

Leave me in the Rockies, you can have the rest

When hard times came a knockin, I met them at the door

Had a wife and family, some said we were poor

So I moved to the city, took a job at the mill

(So I took a job out on the road, a salesman for the mill)

And if lonesome didn’t find me, perhaps I’d be there still

The love of wealth and money has changed many a man

But riches of the heart will forever stand

A simple life with my wife in our cabin home

Far up in the mountains never more to roam