From the recording Music Tonight
Lyrics
Colorado
Started out in old Virginia
At the closing of the war
Headed west over the mountains
So that he could shoot some more
Bought a pistol in Kentucky
Learned to shoot both left and right
Knocked the tops off them old bottles
Shot them bottles day and night
Moving on from state to state
Just like some kind of game
On his way to Colorado
Things will never be the same
Robbed a store in Indiana
You know it wouldn’t be the last
Don’t you know he kind of liked it
And it was good to have the cash
Hold up two weeks in a cabin
Old friends there to lend hand
But he had to keep on running
Now he was a wanted man
Robbing folks had given him
A twisted kind of fame
On his way to Colorado
Things will never be the same
Killed a man down in Missouri
In a robbery gone bad
Took a bullet from the law men
Closest call he ever had
Met a woman two days later
And she bandaged up his wounds
Showed him a poster of the bounty
So they left there way too soon
Got to keep on moving now
It’s way too late for blame
On their way to Colorado
Things will never be the same
Finally safe in old Durango
Robbed the bank for one last score
Thought he saw another law man
As they were running out the door
Pulled his pistol and he shot once
Was it an agent of the law?
But when he walked up to the body
A little boy is all he saw
Standing on the gallows now
She softly calls his name
Lost their way in Colorado
Things will never be the same
Lost their way in Colorado…