To The Wild Country — John Denver

1.) There are times I fear I loose myself, I don't know who I am, I get caught up in the struggle and the strain.

With my back against a stone wall, my finger in the dam, I'm losin' strength and goin' down again.

When I take a look around me, my eyes can't find the sun, there's nothin wild as far as I can see.

Then my heart turns to Alaska, and freedom on the run, I can hear her spirit calling me

2.) Oh I know sometimes I worry on worldly ways and means, And I can see the future killing me

On a misbegotten highway of prohesies and dreams, a road to nowhere and eternaty.

And I know it's just changes, and mankind marchin' on I know we can't live in yesterday But compared to what we're losin' and what it means to me, I'd give my life and throw the rest away.

Chorus

To the mountains, I can rest there, to the rivers,

I will be strong, To the forests,

I'll find peace there, to the wild country where I belong. I belong to the wild country, where I belong