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 shoudn´t been But I would find her listening for that same lone mountain wind
She came from the mountains
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