Johnny Cash - She Came from the Mountains lyrics

She came from the mountains
Rocky Mountains eagle-high
She's from where the mountains lean
Up to the sky
Now she's back among the Rockies
Where mountain thunders cry
Now the wind from off the
Mountains wails a sad goodbye
Once in Colorado Springs at the
Foot of old Pike's Peak
I met a Rocky Mountain girl to
My soul her heart let speak
We went to tell her parents
And an old grandmother said
If you'll leave these mountains girl you'll
Wish that you were dead
The next day I took her with
Me to my far-off Iowa home
Way out on the flatlands where
The mountain winds don't moan
Each footstep we took was happy or
At least it shoudn't been
But I would find her listening for
That same lone mountain wind

She came from the mountains

Months passed as fast as antelopes
Until one fatal dismal dawn
I walked to see morning sun shine
Down on where she was gone
I'd known that lately she'd been sad
Women sometimes get that way
I hadn't guessed how much was
Wrong until that fatal day
She had left the weeping letter
Homesick with mountain names
She was somewhere in the Rockies and
I knew I'd been to blame
So now in Colorado Springs I
Wait near old Pike's Peak
Where once I met a mountain girl
That mountain girl I seek