I was a child when the mine was first opened My father and uncles built a road through that mountain Now I am older and the mine lies vacant And the men who are idle built our town a saint Our lady of the Rockies, born of the mountain stone Watch over our valley as the shadow of the evening falls We don’t want to wait alone If she’d been stationed here when we were younger In the days of the boom and the bell and the plunder She’s have more stories than she’d care to tell And we’d all have tickets on a fast train to hell Our lady of the Rockies born of the mountain stone Watch over our valley as the shadow of the evening falls We don’t want to wait alone -- There’s eggs in the basket and there’s butter in the churn And my kitchen's always sunny when I wake up in the morning Met a red headed cowboy and we’re going to settle down Gonna take his name and stake our claim a couple miles from town There’s rhubarb in the garden and buds on all the trees I swear he sings so sweetly makes me weak down to my knees The spring green is on the prairie and the Clark is running wide We had a Presbyterian wedding, I’m a real Montana bride There’s a baby in the basket and another on the way And my kitchen's always sunny at the start of every day Got my red headed cowboy he sings just like Milton Brown He got a job with Anaconda so we’re moving into town There’s copper in the mountains and the Chinook winds ablow If there’s any life that’s better buddy I don’t care to know The spring green is on the prairie and the Blackfoots running wide We had a real Montana wedding, I’m a real Montana bride -- I raised Hell as a girl I was wicked and wild in my youth I had every man that I wanted and then I met you But it’s cruel to step out on a gentle and serious man So I promised that I would be true when you asked for my hand You drew forth flowers and fruit from the valleys and trees And I was as faithful to you as I knew how to be I gave you four children, I gave you each night and each day But children are given and children are taken away I wasn’t right I wasn’t wrong I wasn’t nothing nothing but gone A house of strong foundation full of light and song Is nothing but a prison when that light is gone I wasn’t weak I wasn’t strong I wasn’t nothing nothing but gone -- We bear our sons to mine ore and log timber And we bear our daughters to become wives and mothers May they be protected from danger and hunger May they not be taken by fire or by water Our lady of the Rockies, born of the mountain stone Watch over our valley as the shadow of the evening falls We don’t want to wait alone. -- I don’t know when I’ll pass over, the hour the minute the day Or what I will find when I get there, will I be granted a way Darling please wait for your mother, I’ll be there to come take your hand And we’ll ride to glory together I’ll introduce you to the conductor I walk the Silver Bow river searching for where you might rest I hear the groan of the trestle and the call of the BNSF When I see your face in the water when I hear your voice on the wind When I have found you my daughter I’ll introduce you to the conductor How can a heart that’s so heavy be empty of all but despair How can pain and remorse be forgotten when they linger and hang in the air If you meet me there at the station and welcome me into your arms I’ll know I’ve found my salvation I’ll introduce you to the conductor -- How can I hear your voice without hearing their calls in the wind How can I see your face without seeing their faces again I good as killed you my husband my lover my friend But who can see truth through a darkness without an end I wasn’t right I wasn’t wrong I wasn’t nothing nothing but gone Now it won’t be long until I’m nothing nothing but gone -- I got into trouble with the law I got into trouble with the law I don’t know just where we are but I woke up in the back of that squad car It was Saturday about half past noon I was belly up at the Push Saloon Getting right on Thunderbird when the man walked up got to have a word I got into trouble with the law I got into trouble with the law Guess it went just a little too far But I woke up in the back of that squad car I was a mile high and a mile deep I couldn’t work and I couldn’t sleep Just looking for something to set me free Got picked up by the deputy I got into trouble with the law I got into trouble with the law I don’t know just where we are I woke up in the back of that squad car -- Come back to me, turn away from the close of the day For the moonlight is cold and unkind Come back to me like the dawn like the wild bird who has flown Through the curtain of frost stretched across the divide Come back to me, turn around, raise your thoughts from the ground Where it’s slashed with a shovel its trouble to yield There’s no answer my dear there’s just me I am here By your side darling come back to me -- The snow from the mountains runs down to the river And the rivers are wide and they flow on forever Our children have grown and moved out of this valley And our husbands are gone and the lady is lonely Our lady of the Rockies born of the mountain stone Watch over our valley as the shadow of the evening falls We don’t want to wait alone