by
Charles Edwin Hewes
Out in Colorado
They've opened up the Gates:
Got the Peaks a-shining
For the People of these States.
It's a Land of many Rivers---
Of Mountains and of Plains;
It's the place that people visit
When the heat of summer reigns.
When you want a change of feeling---
When you're worried, sick, or blue;
All together---Poudre River!
Colorado's calling you
Colorado's calling---won't you come?
Colorado's calling---make no delay.
Colorado's calling---hear those motors hum---
Colorado's calling from her Great White Way*
There's a land that's more than business---
Where you can play and run.
You can snowball in the summer
And hit the rising sun.
You can ride a pretty pony
And ramble on the trail;
Pitch camp deep in a canyon
And fish and hook a whale.
When you want a change of feeling---
When you're worried, sick, or blue;
All together---Poudre River!
Colorado's calling you.
Oh, be jolly, and be happy,
In a Land of Sun and Sky!
Come out and throw your kisses
At a bunch of Mountains high.
Leave your troubles in the low land---
Get a whiff of Mile-High air.
Climb up on top a Rainbow
And find the gold that's there.
When you want a change of feeling---
When you're worried, sick, or blue;
All together---Poudre River!
Colorado's calling you.
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* The 200 miles of the snowy Front Range
of the Rockies as seen from the Great Plains.
Reprinted from Songs of the Rockies by
Charles Edwin Hewes. Drawings by Dean
Babcock. The Edgerton-Palmer Press,
Hewes-Kirkwood, Allenspark, Colorado.
Copyright (c) 1938, Charles Edwin Hewes.
Fair Use. Vintage Colorado Poetry would
welcome hearing from family of Charles
Edwin Hewes.
for
Memorial Day Weekend
May 2006
Charles Edwin Hewes,
The Bard of Rocky Mountain
National Park
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