Whispering Jesse - John Denver

I often have wandered in deep contemplation

It seems that the mind runs wild when you’re all alone

the way that it could be, the ways that it should be things I’do differently if I could do them again

I’ve always loved spring time, the passing of winter

the green of the new leaves, the life goin’on

the promise of morning, the long days of summer

warm nights of lo-ving her beneath the bright stars

I’m just an old cowboy from high Colorado

too old to ride anymore, to blind to see

I sleep in the city now, away from my mountains

away from the cab-in we always called home

I dream I left there on an old palomino

whispering Jesse rode right by my side

I long to hold her, to hear her soft breathing

the touch of her cool hands on my fevered brow

Wispering Jesse still rides in the mountains

still sings in the canyons

still lives in my heart