The Mountain

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I was born on this mountain a long time ago
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Before they knocked down the timber and strip-mined the coal
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When you rose in the mornin' before it was light
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To go down in that dark hole and come back up at night
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I was born on this mountain, this mountain's my home
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She holds me and keeps me from worry and woe
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Well, they took everything that she gave, now they're gone
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But I'll die on this mountain, this mountain's my home
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I was young on this mountain but now I am old
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And I knew every holler, every cool swimmin' hole
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Till one night I lay down and woke up to find
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That my childhood was over and I went down in the mine
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I was born on this mountain, this mountain's my home
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She holds me and keeps me from worry and woe
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Well, they took everything that she gave, now they're gone
         D           Em             G             D
But I'll die on this mountain, this mountain's my home

G  O

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There's a hole in this mountain and it's dark and it's deep
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And God only knows all the secrets it keeps
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There's a chill in the air only miners can feel

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There're ghosts in the tunnels that the company sealed
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I was born on this mountain, this mountain's my home
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She holds me and keeps me from worry and woe
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Well, they took everything that she gave, now they're gone
         D           Em             G             D
But I'll die on this mountain, this mountain's my home

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