Whispering Jesse

John Denver

Tom: D

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I often had wandered, in deep contemplation
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It seems that the mind runs wild when you?re all alone
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The way that it could be, the ways that it should be
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Things I?d do differently, if I could do them again

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I?ve always loved springtime, the passing of winter
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The green of the new leaves and life goin? on
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The promise of morning, the long days of summer
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Warm nights of loving her, beneath the bright stars

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I?m just an old cowboy, from high Colorado
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To old to ride anymore, too blind to see
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I sleep in the city now, away from my mountains
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Away from the cabin we always called home

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I dreamed I left there, on an old palamino
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Whispering Jesse rode right by my side
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I long to hold her, to hear her soft breathing
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The touch of her cool hand, on my fevered brow

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Whispering Jesse, still rides in the mountains
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Still sings in the canyons, still lives in my heart