Darcy Farrow

by Tom Campbell and Steve Gillette
sung by John Denver
from Rocky Mountain High (1972)




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1. Where the wal-ker runs down thru the    Carson Valley Plain
2.           Her voice was as sweet as the sugar     can-dy
4.       But her pony did stumble      and she did       fall

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1.         there lived a maiden Darcy Farrow was her name.
2.      Her touch was as soft as a    bed of goose down
4. her dying touched the hearts of    us one and all

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1.   The daughter of Old Dundee and fair one was   she
2.   her eyes shone bright like the      pretty    lights
4. Young Vandy in his pain put a bullet  thru his  brain

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1.  the sweetest flower    that bloomed over the range.
2. that shine in the night out  of Yerrington    town.
4. we buried them togeher as the snow   began to fall.

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3. She  was courted   by     young Vandamere
5. They sing of Darcy Farrow where the Truckee runs thru

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3.       a fine lad was he as I am to hear.
5. they sing of her beauty in Virginia City, too.

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3. He gave her silver rings and        la-  cy    things
5. At dusky       sun-down to her name they drink a round

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3. she promised to wed before the snows came that year
5. and to young    Van-dy whose love   was      true.