Second year of our marriage in Forestry School at Colorado A & M Ft Collins Colorado...money was tight.

Seventy-Six and Part of the Mix
Copyright by: Verne Garrison
July 11, 2009
Valley Park, Mo
Banjo Tuned E, Capo 2, Key of D


It was a job that I was needin
While first married at Colorado A & M
Low on cash, and barely gettin by
I took this job, don't ask me why

A thirty mile drive in a borrowed car
Up the Poudre River Canyon Road
The job was one of digging a well
In the side of a Rocky Mountain bode

They lowered me into this hole,
Some sixty foot deep
Run the airhammer, I was told
I remember, I can see it in my sleep

Next, they lowered to me,
Six sticks of dynamite clout
That they wanted me to "cap"
I jerked the rope, they pulled me out

I jumped into the car
Drove down the mountain back to my wife
Forgetting about any pay
Just glad to still have my life

I often think of day in 1955
A young man of 23
Decided I wanted to stay alive,
And my new bride agreed with me

Now this September, we will mark
Our anniversary years totalling 56
Happy I left that hole in the dark
And remain "part of the mix"