The Mountain

I was born on this mountain a long, long time ago

Before they knocked down the timber

And strip-mined all the coal

When you rose up in the morning

Before it was daylight

To go down in that dark hole

And come back up at night

I was born on this mountain, this mountain's my home

She holds me and she keeps me from worry and woe

Well, they took everything she gave

She gave and now she's gone

But I'll die on this mountain

This mountain's my home

I was young on this mountain, but now I am old

And I knew every holler, every cool swimmin' hole

Till one night I lay down and woke up to find

That my childhood was over, I went down in the mine

There's a hole in this mountain

It's dark and it's deep

And God only knows all the secrets it keeps

There's a chill in the air only miners can feel

There's ghosts in the tunnels that the company sealed