John Denver – Whispering Jesse (Guitar)

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D            G    A  Bm  G              D     G
I often had wandered, in deep contemplation

   A              Bm    A    G                    Asus4  A
It seems that the mind runs wild when you're all alone

    G            D       G     A             D        G
The way that it could be,  the ways that it should be

 A            Bm    A   G     A                D
Things I'd do differently, if I could do them again

D                 G     A    Bm     G             D     G
I've always loved springtime,   the passing of winter

    A            Bm   A         G              Asus4  A
The green of the new leaves and life goin? on

    G          D       G      A           D      G
The promise of morning,  the long days of summer

A              Bm A    G     A                D
Warm nights of loving her, beneath the bright stars

D               G   A  Bm      G              D     G
I'm just an old cowboy,   from high Colorado

A         Bm A      G                Asus4  A
To old to ride anymore, too blind to see

  G                 D   G  A           D         G
I sleep in the city now,  away from my mountains

  A           Bm A G   A             Dsus4  D
Away from the cabin we always called home

G  A           D          G       A       D
   I dreamed I left there,  on an old palamino

G  A          Bm A G                 A    G/A  A
   Whispering Jesse rode right by my side

          D        G     A             D        G
I long to hold her,  to hear her soft breathing

     A           Bm   A     G    A          D
The touch of her cool hands,  on my fevered brow
G - A - D G - A - D G - A - Bm G - A - G/A - A
           D     G      A             D         G
Whispering Jesse, still rides in the mountains

         A          D       G       A           D
Still sings in the canyons,   still lives in my heart