Rocky Mountain Daydream © Tom Shindler 1974
I want to live beneath the mountains,
I want to live up in the sky –
I want to sing my songs to the mountain streams,
And listen to their harmony –
I want to walk through the forest and dream my dreams
And learn the way to be free.
I want to listen to the rhythm of the falling rain
And watch the green things grow
I want to let the wilderness into my brain
And learn how the rivers flow.
I want to live beneath the mountains
I want to live deep in the trees
I want to climb way up to the mountain tops
To the sun and the rocks and the snow.
I want to find where the roads and the trails all stop
And that’s the way that I’ll go
I want to walk in the peace of a starlit night
See the trees by the light of the moon
I want to watch the sun rising up so bright
To teach me a happy tune.
I want to live my life with nature
I want to make this earth my home
I want to go where there are no billboard signs
No empty cans of beer
Where the air is clean and the sun can shine
And the water is running clear
I want to leave behind the dollar-sign curse
Where love and life are free
I want to fall in love with the Universe
That gives its life to me.
(Repeat first verse)
I want to live beneath the mountains,
I want to live up in the sky –
I want to sing my songs to the mountain streams,
And listen to their harmony –
I want to walk through the forest and dream my dreams
And learn the way to be free.
I want to walk through the forest and dream my dreams
And learn the way to be free.