This mountain's my home

This Mountain's my Home

Made famous by Tom the bartender

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

And she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe

Now they took everything that she gave, now they're gone

I will die on this mountain, this mountain's my home>

I was born on this mountain a long time ago

before they knocked down the timber and strip-mined the coal

And you woke up in the morning before it was light

You'd go down in that dark hole to come back at night

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

And I knew every hollow, every cool swimming hole

And one night I laid down and woke up to find

That my childhood was over; I went down in the mines

There's a hole in this mountain, it's dark and it's deep

O and Lord only knows all the secrets she keeps

And there's a chill on the air only miners can feel

And there's ghosts in the tunnels that the company sealed