SILVER CITY

Gene Eric Mann

Psych Folk – This was Danville Dan’s favorite GEM tune, and I knew it would be when I wrote it.

SILVER CITY

Wish I were in Silver City
Somewhere in New Mexico
Where I would eat all the pine nuts
And where I’d go panning for gold

Wish I were in Silver City
On the Continental Divide
Where I would chase Gila monsters
Inside the cliff dwellings they hide

Wish I were in Silver City
Somewhere in New Mexico
‘Though I have never been through there
That is where someday I’ll go

Wonder if folks there will like me
If they’d make good company
I would play guitar to charm them
Come summer I’d serve them ice tea

If I die ’fore I should get there
If the Lord takes me away
Bury me in Silver City
And here’s what my tombstone should say:

“Here lies what was a song-writer
Here in our tranquil city
’Though he had never been through here
Here’s where he wanted to be”