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 should been
But I would find her listening
For that same lone mountain wind
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
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
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