From the album “Starborn”
© 2005 by Gary and Maureen Shoe

This song is a fanciful, but researched, narrative from the point of view of Charley Utter, a.k.a Colorado Charley, a.k.a Dr. C.H. Utter, whose life, in my opinion, was the basis for the title character in the movie "Little Big Man". Of his many adventures and romances amongst the Indians and settlers, I take the artistic license of having his last conscious moments be a reflection of his marriage to Matilda Nash of Georgetown, Colorado.

So flavors of the Southwest are sprinkled about in this song where our hero, who was Wild Bill Hickok's devoted partner, ponders his continued migration south, yet stops to remember the exhilarating, lofty feelings of his love for Matilda, whom he left far to the North long, long ago.