Love in Leadville

Lookit you there, Honeylamb

Your cap and gown and polished Ropers

You’d thought this day would never come

And now it’s fixin’ to be behind you

Don’t need to tell you the big old world’s

Sittin’ right outside our city limits

‘Cause you’ve been itchin’ to bust beyond ‘em

Since about the time you arrived within ‘em

But before you stretch those wings of yours

And fly away into those other calling skies

There’s something I need to tell you

For when life clips those wings of yours

Love in Leadville’s

Gonna be there littl’ darlin’

Love in Leadville’s

Gonna git ya through

You’ve got a big ol’ open heart

And though he’d never fess up to it

That’s the heart you got from you old man

But as the saying goes, The bigger they are…

The world is looking for hearts like yours

Looking perhaps for something that they’ve lost

Or maybe instead something that they can’t have

Either way, know I’ll be holding your heart in mine

But don’t go thinking your heart will be all alone

Even though honest hearts can be hard to find

They’re out there for sure, perhaps looking for you

Rest assured it’s not always a heartless world

Love in Leadville’s

Gonna be there littl’ darlin’

Love in Leadville’s

Gonna git ya through

By now you know family reaches farther than blood

And that it sometimes brings in together

What on the surface seems the strangest of placements

For love and family have reasons of their own

So it’s not just your Pa and me, your little sisters

Who’ll be missing you, thinking of your, and praying

It’ll be this whole entire town doing all that and more

This whole entire town will be aching while you’re gone

But there still remains that big old world outside

All those scads of folks who you’ve never met

Who don’t yet realize it’s you they’ve been waiting for

So many wonders await you, so many families too

Love in Leadville’s

Gonna be there littl’ darlin’

Love in Leadville’s

Gonna git ya through