Wild Montana Skies-John Denver/Emmylou Harris

[00:04.19]He was born in the bitterroot valley in the early morning rain [00:08.61]Wild geese over the water headin' north and home again [00:12.56]Bringin' a warm wind from the south [00:14.58]Bringin' the first taste of the spring [00:17.13]His mother took him to her breast and softly she did sing [00:21.19] [00:22.58]Oh montana, give this child a home [00:26.69]Give him the love of a good family and a woman of his own [00:31.02]Give him a fire in his heart, give him a light in his eyes [00:35.42]Give him the wild wind for a brother and the wild montana skies [00:43.24] [00:44.64]His mother died that summer and he never learned to cry [00:48.85]He never knew his father and he never did ask why [00:53.31]He never knew the answers that would make an easy way [00:57.59]But he learned to know the wilderness and to be a man that way [01:01.84] [01:02.92]His mother's brother took him in to family and his home [01:07.23]Gave him a hand that he could lean on and a strength to call his own [01:11.64]And he learned to be a farmer and he learned to love the land [01:15.98]And he learned to read the seasons and he learned to make a stand [01:20.27] [01:21.32]Oh montana, give this child a home [01:25.88]Give him the love of a good family and a woman of his own [01:30.04]Give him a fire in his heart, give him a light in his eyes [01:34.34]Give him the wild wind for a brother and the wild montana skies [01:41.69] [01:43.16]On the eve of his 21st birthday he set out on his own [01:47.34]He was 30 years and runnin' when he found his way back home [01:51.58]Ridin' a storm across the mountains and an aching in his heart [01:55.85]Said he came to turn the pages and to make a brand new start [02:00.38] [02:01.42]Now he never told a story of the time that he was gone [02:05.69]Some say he was a lawyer, some say he was a john [02:10.00]There was somethin' in the city that he said he couldn't breathe [02:14.21]And there was somethin' in the country that he said he couldn't leave [02:19.46]Oh montana, give this child a home [02:23.71]Give him the love of a good family and a woman of his own [02:27.97]Give him a fire in his heart, give him a light in his eyes [02:32.34]Give him the wild wind for a brother and the wild montana skies [02:39.79] [02:55.01]Now some say he was crazy and some glad that he is gone [02:59.36]But some of us miss him and we'll try to carry on [03:03.24]Giving a voice to the forest, giving a voice to the dawn [03:07.49]Giving a voice to the wilderness and the land that he lived on [03:11.99] [03:12.94]Oh montana, give this child a home [03:17.20]Give him the love of a good family and a woman of his own [03:21.47]Give him a fire in his heart, give him a light in his eyes [03:25.90]Give him the wild wind for a brother and the wild montana skies [03:32.30]Oh montana, give this child a home [03:36.51]Give him the love of a good family and a woman of his own [03:40.66]Give him a fire in his heart, give him a light in his eyes [03:45.10]Give him the wild wind for a brother and the wild montana skies