Rocky Mountain High
Words & Music by John Denver and Mike Taylor
from Rocky Mountain High (1972)
Unusual chords:
Em7 : 22||||
Dmaj7 : |||222
(Capo up 2 frets)
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A D Em7 C A
He was born in the summer of his twenty seventh year
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coming home to a place he'd never been before.
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He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again
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you might say he found a key for ev'ry door.
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When he first came to the mountains his life was far away
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on the road and hangin' by a song.
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But the strings already broken and he doesn't really care
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it keeps changin' fast and it don't last for long.
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But the Colorado Rocky Mountain high
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I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
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the shadow from the starlight
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is softer than a lull--a----by
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Rocky Mountain high, Rocky Mountain high
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He climbed Cathedral Mountains he saw silver clouds below
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he saw ev'rything as far as you can see.
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And they say that he got crazy once and he tried to touch the sun
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and he lost a friend but he kept his memory.
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Now he walks in quiet solitude the forest and the streams
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seeking grace in ev'ry step he takes.
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His sight has turned in side himself to try and understand
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the serenity of a clear blue mountain lake.
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And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high
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I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
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talk to God and listen to the cas-ual re----ply
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Rocky Mountain high, Rocky Mountain high
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Now his life is full of wonder but his heart still knows some fear
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of a simple thing he cannot comprehend.
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Why they try to tear the mountains down to bring in a couple more
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more people more scars up on the land.
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And the Colorado Mountain high
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I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
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I know he'd be a poorer man
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if he never saw an ea--gle fly.
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Rocky Mountain high, Rocky Mountain high
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It's a Colorado Mountain high
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I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
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friends around the campfire
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and ev'rybo--dy's high
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