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When I take the road, very early in the morning,
C G
I have the route drawn. clear and meticulously
G F
After a long time, running fast on two wheels
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Under sun and rain
G
it emerges on landscape
F C G
It rises sovereign in the firmament
F C G
It seems to want to welcome me like a son
F C G
I do not know where it starts, or where it ends
F C D
It knows I'm here to admire it.
G F
For God, all my reverence,
C G
All my prayer for the Rocky Mountains,
G F
I thank God for its grandeur,
C G
And its nature, the Rocky Mountains
G F
I have eyes to gloat and see,
C G
In ecstasy, The Rocky Mountains
G F
My soul rejoices how the green
C G
it is seen on The rocky Mountains
G F
I am open-mouthed for that amazing enormity.
C G
So Wonderful place Blessed by God
F
I will tell my children and grandchildren
C
I had been here
G
I always I will be back
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Since it emerged with the Laramide Orogeny
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Time and nature carved it masterfully
F C G
Long ago, it was a huge ocean
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Full of exotic fishes and ammonites
