C               F  G   Am   F           C      F
   I often have wandered in deep contemplation
       G              Am   G    F                     G    G7
   It seems that the mind runs wild when you're all alone
                    C       F     G             C       F
   the way that it could be, the ways that it should be
     G          Am G     F       G              C
   things I'do differently if I could do them again

 C                      F    G   Am    F          C      F
   I've always loved spring time, the passing of winter
         G           Am  G     F               G    G7
   the green of the new leaves, the life goin' on
                   C      F     G            C       F
   the promise of morning, the long days of summer
    G              Am G    F     G                 C
   warm nights of lo-ving her beneath the bright stars

 C                  F  G Am     F        C      F
   I'm just an old cowboy from high Colorado
    G          Am G       F                 G    G7
   too old to ri---de anymore, to blind to see
                   C       F  G           C        F
   I sleep in the city now, away from my mountains
     G            Am G F   G              C
   away from the cab-in we always called home

C F G          C        F      G        C    F
    I dream I left there on an old palomino
     G         Am G F                  G    G7
   whispering Jesse  rode right by my side
              C       F    G              C        F
   I long to hold her, to hear her soft breathing
        G            Am   G   F       G        C
   the touch of her cool hands on my fevered brow

C F G C F G C F G Am F G

              C   F       G            G        F
   Wispering Jesse still rides in the mountains
          G            C       F
   still sings in the canyons
          G           C
   still lives in my heart