Johnny Cash
"You Wild Colorado" lyrics

You Wild Colorado

Oh, you wild raging river
Like my woman's lips
You lure me
Pied piper of the desert
Roll on to the sea

You're the same at noon or midnight
And I'll follow where you go
But you're planning no returning
You wild Colorado

If I had no love of life
I'd become part of your flow
But I fear the place you'd take me
You wild Colorado

Oh, you wild raging river
From the fountains of the mountains
You ripple down the valleys
Growing wide and swift and deep

With what powed you cut your canyons?
How long ago?
You're as wayward as my woman
You wild Colorado

If I had no love of life
I'd become part of your flow
But I fear the place you'd take me
You wild Colorado