45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2001

MAKING "SONG FOR NEW MEXICO" THE STATE WESTERN SONG.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. STATE WESTERN SONG.--The words and music of "Song for New Mexico", written by James Hobbs, are declared to be the official state western song. The words of the state western song are as follows:

There is a place I know that I can go

Where man still has room to roam;

Where the air is so clear and the sky so blue

and the Indians call it home.

Some of us were born here and some of us

just came,

To these mountains thru the valleys in the

soft New Mexico rain.

I'll spend my days in New Mexico

Where the mountains touch the sun.

I'll spend my days in New Mexico

Where you and nature can be one.

There is a farmer in the valley; he is

happy as can be;

Pretty dark-eyed senorita works beside

him in the field.

And the dust has hardly settled from

those trail drives of long ago.

And you can hear those cowboys singing:

"Lie low, little doggies; lie low".

Now the sun it's slowly sinking over

this wide and peaceful land,

And it's going to paint a picture in the sky for

you and me.

And the colors, oh so rich and so rare,

Unfold this graceful land

And makes me wish that I was here

When God made these mountains with his hands.