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