Cifra Club

When I Was A Girl In Colorado

Judy Collins

Chord: Principal (acoustic and electric guitars)
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key: C
INTRO:
C  F  C  F
C  F  C  G
C

VERSE:
 C            F           C
When I was a girl in Colorado

  C G Am
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|

 Am     F                 C   G
Rivers danced the canyon walls
Am7            F             C
   Paintbrush nodded in the springtime

  F G Am7
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|

Am7       F                   G   G  C
 I could hear the bluebirds' calls


VERSE:
 C            F           C
When I was a girl in Colorado

  F G Am
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|

 Am     F              C  G  Am
Winter held me in its arrrms

 Am      F                C
Summers rocked me like a lover

  C G Am7
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|

Am7       F         G      G  C
 I could never come to harm


VERSE:
 C            F           C
When I was a girl in Colorado

  F G Am
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|

Am       F           C
I could conquer anything

  F G Am
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|

Am       F                 C
I could fly with wings of silver

  C G Am
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|

Am       F           G        G F
I could whisper, I could sing


CHORUS:
 C
Will you take me to the mountains
Am         F             G  G  F
  Before another summer ends
F       G                  C
We can catch the outbound zephyr

  C G Am7
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|

Am7     F           G       G  C
We can travel like the wind


VERSE:
 C      F                C
When I moved out to the desert

  F G Am
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|

 Am    F            C   C G  Am
Forty years to lose my sooul
 Am        F                 C
Somewhere back there in her rivers

  C G Am
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|

 Am  F        G        G  C
Colorado made me whole

 C     F       G       C
When I go back to the mountains

  F G Am
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|

Am        F         C   C G  G Am
I always find a windy  hiill
Am         F           C         C  Am
Watch the sunset over Long's Peak
Am         F               G         G F
Ski those slopes and feel that thrill


CHORUS:
 F                       C       C
Will you take me to the mountains
Am        F             G  G  F
 Before another summer ends
F       G                  C
We can catch the outbound zephyr

  C G Am
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|

Am      F           G       G  C
We can travel like the wind


VERSE:
 C            F       C
When I was a girl in Colorado

  F G Am
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|

Am        F           C
I knew enough to fall in love

  F G Am
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|

Am        F                C
Like the bluebirds in the pine trees

  C G Am
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|
           F        G       G  F
Like the snowfall from above


CHORUS:
 F                       C
Will you take me to the mountains
Am        F             G  G
 Before another summer ends
F        G                  C
We can catch the outbound zephyr

  C G Am
E|-------|
B|-------|
G|-------|
D|-------|
A -3-2-0-
E|-------|

Am      F           G       G
We can travel like the wind


OUTRO:
      F   F C C F
Like the wiiiiiind
          Am
Like the wiiiiiind
      C   C C G G  C  C  C
Like the wiiiiiind
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