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1. You came to us as a young man, just wanting to sing your songs;

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You brought Leaving on a Jet Plane, and Country Roads along.

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Then you shared with us fire in the sky with Rocky Mountain High;

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Poems and Prayers and Sunshine, and many others by and by.

Chorus Oh Dear John, why did you have to go?

Was it time for you to write your songs, from another world?

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The Rocky Mountain high, and the sunshine that you brought,

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Will last beyond the time you gave us here.

2. The story of your whole life, is found within your songs;

You wrote of love and good times, and when hardtimes came along.

You wrote of Annie and Cassie, and being in Shanghi;

You wrote of your love for Alaska, and the wild Montana sky.

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3. Now I feel you are a part of me, a part of who I am;

I feel you in the songs I write, and in the songs I sing.

I hear your voice raised up in joy, as you celebrated life.

Now I feel your soul raised up on wings, as the hawk and eagle fly.

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#31 Words and music by Tom Vance, © February, 1997. This song was written in memory