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My Colorado Home
By Darrell Arnold & Jack Hannah, Sung by Sons of the San Joaquin
Album: From Whence Came the Cowboy
Artist biography


  • Piebald: a horse with black and white patches, in this case a gray horse with black and white patches
  • Great Divide: refers to the Continental Divide along the tops of the Rocky Mountains

I was born and raised where the cattle graze under Colorado skies
The tumbling creeks and the Spanish peaks tells tails both old and wise
If you learn to love these mountains you never will depart
If your heart's in Colorado, Colorado's in your heart

Then a lady fair, who lived out there, and this cowboy fell in love
I held her tight by a campfire bright under blazing stars above
I pledged my love forever and vowed I'd never part
My heart was for this woman, this woman for my heart

Under rancher skies where the eagle flies is where I long to ride
Down the wooded slopes with my dreams and hopes and sweetheart by my side
The streams and trails and the mountain vales are the paths I long to roam
Where the hawk flies free is the place for me, in my Colorado home

But a young cowboy, full of life and joy, has a need to wander far
So I rode away on a piebald grey led by the morn' stars
I pushed that grey down Texas way where the cattle trails all start
My heart was for me only, just I was in my heart

So I rode those trails to the hitchin' rails of that rugged lonesome land
I danced all night, I drank and fight, cause I could not understand
Why I found no peace no sweet release and by mornin' I depart
My heart was lost and lonely, lonely was my heart

Under rancher skies where the eagle flies is where I long to ride
Down the wooded slopes with my dreams and hopes and sweetheart by my side
The streams and trails and the mountain vales are the paths I long to roam
Where the hawk flies free is the place for me, in my Colorado home

So I put my horse on a westward course to the mountains I did ride
My love so fair was a waitin' there on the slopes of the great divide
We'll always be together, never more to part
My heart's in Colorado, Colorado's in my heart

Under rancher skies where the eagle flies is where I long to ride
Down the wooded slopes with my dreams and hopes and sweetheart by my side
The streams and trails and the mountain vales are the paths I long to roam
Where the hawk flies free is the place for me, in my Colorado home

Where the hawk flies free is the place for me, in my Colorado home
Colorado, Colorado, Colorado


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