Brought me where I used to be,
And I met her, gaily ridin'
With a smarter man than me.
Then I raised my dusty cover
But she didn't see nor hear,
So I hummed the old tune over,
Laughin' in my hawse's ear:
If the snowflake specks the desert
Or the yucca blooms awhile.
Ay! what gloom the mountain covers