I Am Going to the West - Connie Dover

In this fair land I'll stay no more

Here labor is in vain

I'll seek the mountains far away

And leave the fertile plain

Where waves of grass in oceans roll

Into infinity

I stand ready on the shore

To cross the inland sea

I am going to the west

You say you will not go with me

You turn your eyes away

You say you will not follow me

No matter what I say

I am going to the west

I am going to the west

I will journey to the place

That was shaped by heaven's hand

And I will build for me a bower

Where angels' footprints mark the land

Where castle rocks in towers high

Kneel to valleys wild and green

All my thoughts are turned to you

My waking hope my sleeping dream

I am going to the west

You say you will not go with me

You turn your eyes away

You say you will not follow me

No matter what I say

I am going to the west

I am going to the west

And when sun gives way to moon

And silver starlight fills the sky

In the arms of these last hills

Is where I'm bound to lie

Wind my blanket earth my bed

My canopy a tree

Willows by the river's edge

Will whisper me to sleep

I am going to the west

You say you will not go with me

You turn your eyes away

You say you will not follow me

No matter what I say

I am going to the west

I am going to the west