GOLD DUST AND RAINBOWS

(RKB, 1980, A, 4:11)

1.) As Harry rides atop the ridge, he looks out across the flowing brooks,
Down to where his campfire cooks his meal of yesterday,
And he ponders.
Hey, tell me where did all the cowboys go? Who closed down the rodeo?
The past is gone, but he don't know.
And lost, he wanders.

C.) Gold Dust and rainbows, horse#### and gun-smoke.
I see him ridin' out across the plains.
One day he'll find it, the land that he's searching for.
Harry come ridin' home from the range.

2.) He builds his cabin in the forest there. Lays each log with loving care,
Builds a home that he can share,
With his campfire lady.
She sheds a tear upon his fading dream for a life that's not been seen
Since the turn of the century.
Her cowboy's crazy.

(Repeat chorus)

B.) How can every inch of land be owned, and planned and paved?
Mankind will come and go, but this mountain will remain.
Come-a-ty-yi-yippie-yippie-yay, yippie-yay,
Come-a-ty-yi-yippie-yippie-yay, yippie-yo.
Gonna take my life from this earth like a man,
You can write it on my tombstone.

(Repeat chorus)

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