I'm away for a few days. I believe this is the version Kat loved:

Along the Colorado Trail
(from the CD booklet from Faith's Favorites, by Faith Petric)

Eyes like the morning star
Cheeks like the rose;
Laura was a pretty girl
Everybody knows;
Weep all ye little rains,
Wail, winds, wail
All along, along along
The Colorado trail.

Laura was a laughing girl,
Joyful in the day;
Laura was a darling girl,
Now she's gone away.
Weep all ye little rains,
Wail, winds, wail
All along, along along
The Colorado trail.

Sixteen years she graced the earth,
And all life was good;
Now all life is buried
Beneath a cross of wood.
Weep all ye little rains,
Wail, winds, wail
All along, along along
The Colorado trail.

Ride all the lonely night,
Ride all the day,
Keep the herd a-movin' on,
Movin' on its way.
Weep all ye little rains,
Wail, winds, wail
All along, along along
The Colorado trail.

Wind's comin' down the gulch,
Night birds cry alarm,
Wish I'd stayed in Abilene,
Nice and dry and warm.
Weep all ye little rains,
Wail, winds, wail
All along, along along
The Colorado trail.

Traditional, collected by Carl Sandburg with additional words by Lee Hays and Faith Petric (looks like the last two verses are Faith's)