The twilight softly gathered round my home among the hills And all nature soon will settle down to rest While I sit and sadly ponder and my heart with longing fills As I often think of one that I love best 
We were wedded in the springtime and our hearts they knew no pain Fair nature seemed to smile on us that day Now she sleeps beneath the lilacs and she’ll ne’er come back again Where the silver Colorado wends its way 
Chorus There’s a sob on every breeze And a sigh comes from the trees And the mocking birds they sing a sadder way For the flowers creep no more Round my cheerless cabin door Where the silver Colorado wends its way 
The silver snow is gleaming on your distant mountainside Where often used to wander Nell and I And the birds are singing gaily in the valley far below Where I long some day to lay me down and die 
Then our lives were gay and happy in the shadow of the hills My heart beats fonder for her day by day And I feel her presence near me as I sit alone tonight Where the silver Colorado wends its way 
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