Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Sarah in the Summer

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band


I've driven this road as a stranger 
I've driven this road as a friend 
I've driven this road as a slack-jawed tourist 
And I'm drivin on it once again 
It might be cold and long and lonely 
But she's waiting on the other side 
And I'm an hour closer to Sarah in the summer 
And joyfully I ride. 

I climb through Georgetown, Silver Plume 
The tunnel at Lovelands' Cove/cold? 
The lake on the left is a little low 
Route 9 is the Breckenridge road?? 
There's a sign right below Copper Mountain 
Telling wheter Independence runs free/where the weather &
independence run free 
And I'm an hour closer to Sarah in the summer 
And that's where I wanna be 

In the evening shadow of Red Butte 
Up the lane from the slaughter house bridge 
The first cabin the moonlight strikes as it crests the cleft in
Hunter Crick Ridge 
Up frombetween old Red and Smuggler 
Rising high on a piano bench there 
And I'm an hour closer to Sarah in the summer 
And what lies between beware 
What lies between, beware 

And the red sandstone sentinels rising high on either side 
As I follow the Eagle Valley 
Through the canyon where the saints reside 
In Mt Snowmass's majesty south 
And east out of Glennwood Springs 
And I'm an hour closer to Sarah in the summer 
Where the roaring river sings 
Where the roaring river sings.