Leadville Burn Highway

{fingerpicked

acoustic guitar melody} {soft slide guitar swell} (hummmmm)

Up above the timberline,

the air is thin and cold

Dusty boots on granite stone,

stories left untold

Chasing after Leadville trail where the cold winds blow

With a hand-rolled smoke to keep the chill below

High up on the mountain ridge where the giants stand Stone and

iron, wind and pine across this rugged land

Riding rusty mining wrecks,

living on the breeze

Just another high country drifter down upon his knees

(yeah) Old steam engines sinking

in the yellow mud

Heavy iron memories flowing through my blood

Take a drag of mountain air,

watch the clouds roll past

In a town of silver dreams that were never meant to last

And the stone don't care about the silver we found

It just holds the secrets deep in the ground

{tempo slows slightly} {acoustic guitar solo} High up on the mountain ridge

where the giants stand Stone and iron,

wind and pine across this rugged land

Riding rusty mining wrecks,

living on the breeze

Just another high country drifter down upon his knees (ahhhh)

Leadville wind, take me home (hummmmm)

{fading acoustic fingerpicking} {single slide guitar note}