John Denver – The Blizzard (Guitar)

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    Colorado,      Colorado

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    When the world leaves you shivering

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    And the blizzard blows

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    When the snow flies   and the night falls

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    There's a light in the window

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    And a place called home

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    At the end of the storm

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One night on the mountain I was headed for Estes

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When the roads turned to ice and it started to snow

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Put on the chains in a whirl of white powder

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Halfway up to Berthoud near a diner I know

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And the light burned inside, shining down through the snowfall

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God, it was cold, and the temperature dropping

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Went in for coffee and I shivered as I drank it

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Warming my hands in the steam as it rose

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Sitting there at the counter was a dark-headed stranger

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Me and the owner and her keeping warm

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Nodded hello and I said, "It's a cold one.

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Looks like there might be a blizzard tonight,"

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And "Yes," said the owner, "There's a big storm on the mountain.

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Good thing we're open; we could be here for hours.

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There's nothing for miles, and it's too late to get to Denver.

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Better not try for the summit tonight."

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      And the snow fell

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      And the night passed

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      And I talked to the stranger

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      While the blizzard blew

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Me and the stranger, you know I don't talk to strangers

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I'm a private sort of person, but a blizzard is a blizzard

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And somehow I found myself saying you'd left me

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Telling her everything I wanted to say to you.

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   You know how it is when you can talk to a stranger

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Someone you're quite sure you'll never see again

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   Soon we were laughin' and talkin' and drinkin'.

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She said, "You must know    you're too good for her."

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   And the snow fell

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    And the night passed

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   And I talked to the stranger

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    And the blizzard blew

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The stranger said, "Love, it can cry you a river.

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Me, I'm a loner, 'cause I can't take the heartache.

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Sometimes I'm a fighter when I get too much whiskey.

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Here, have a little whiskey; pretend you don't give a damn.

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My cabin's up here on the side of the mountain.

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You can go up there and sleep through the blizzard."

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I put on my parka, said goodnight to the owner,

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Followed the stranger through the snow

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   up the mountainside

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Woke in the morning to the sun on the snow

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My car was buried in six feet of snowdrift

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Dug myself out, with the help of the owner

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Went on my way when the snowplow had been by

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And the roads were all clear, and the sun on the mountains

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Sparkled like diamonds on the Peak-to-Peak Highway

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  Then I knew that I would get over you

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Knew you could leave me, but you'd never break me

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    Colorado,       Colorado

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When the world leaves you shivering

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   And the blizzard blows

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    When the snow flies     and the night falls

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   There's a light in the window

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    And a place called home

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    At the end   of the   storm