A Daughter in Denver - Tom Paxton

A daughter in Denver, a son in Cheyenne

An ex-wife in Dallas with a suitable man

I’m out on this prairie where the winter winds blow

I’m thinkin' about them and missin' them so

My old man kept his feelin’s hidden inside

And I turned out the same no matter how hard I tried

And this is somethin' my family came to know well

I knew I loved them but there was no way they could tell

A daughter in Denver, a son in Cheyenne

An ex-wife in Dallas with a suitable man

I’m out on this prairie where the winter wind blow

Thinkin' about them and missin' them so

Now it’s half-an-hour by truck just to look at a tree

Its eighteen hundred acres of nothin' but me

Just me and some prairie dogs livin' what passes for life

All that I know is I’m missin' my kids and my wife

A daughter in Denver, a son in Cheyenne

An ex-wife in Dallas with a suitable man

I’m out on this prairie where the winter wind blow

I’m thinkin' about them and missin' them so

I’m thinkin' about them and missin' them so

A daughter in Denver, a son in Cheyenne