th Fret Intro: There's a bad storm moving in across the prairie sky The clouds roll like thunder, the lightning splits the night I'm alone with your memory, the darkness and the pain The trees are trembling in the wind, I hear the falling rain And oh, sweet Maggie Lee, do you remember me? I used to be your sweetheart out by the rolling sea I came here to this prairie town when the stakes were running high Now the boom's gone bust, the works played out, the money's running dry Every day I walk the banks of the ice-fed river Bow And watch the river running east, that's where I'd like to go I've seen the streets of Calgary, I've known a prairie sky I've made and lost a fortune since I left and made you cry And now I wonder why Instrumental: And you said I should have stayed, we might have settled down But the western plains they called to me and took me from your town There's not a thing that I can do to stop this falling rain But if ever I can find a way, I'll hold you once again Every day I walk the banks of the ice-fed river Bow I watch the river running east, that's where I'd like to go I've seen the streets of Calgary, I've known a prairie sky I've made and lost a fortune since I left and made you cry And now I wonder why Every day I walk the banks of the ice-fed river Bow I watch the river running east, that's where I'd like to go I've seen the streets of Calgary, I've known a prairie sky I've made and lost a fortune since I left and said goodbye -- And now I wonder why