Colorado Bound

Hell behind me, heaven up ahead

Far enough to leave me in the red

In the night it keeps me from my bed

But its name is never spoken

It’s a fever there until it’s gone

Like there’s something else but keepin’ on

Doing right’s more than not doing wrong

With that winter fast approaching

California, all in your Sunday best for me

Oregon, you lay there waiting like an emerald by the sea

Come the morning when I’m nowhere to be found

I’ll be halfway to Sioux City, boys

I’m Colorado bound

There’s iron in my blood, it’s true

But a man must do what he must do

A thousand miles to somewhere new

And that road is always open

California, all in your Sunday best for me

Oregon, you lay there waiting like an emerald by the sea

Come the morning when I’m nowhere to be found

I’ll be halfway to Sioux City, boys

I’m Colorado bound

In that high place where the land divides

I could feel that old Ford running dry

Leave it right there under thirty-five

And the rest of it to hoping

California, all in your Sunday best for me

Oregon, you lay there waiting like an emerald by the sea

Come the morning when I’m nowhere to be found

I’ll be halfway to Sioux City, boys

I’m Colorado bound