The Mountain-Levon Helm

[ti:The Mountain] [ar:Levon Helm] [al:Dirt Farmer] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Mountain - Levon Helm [00:16.40]I was born on this mountain [00:19.39] [00:20.16]A long long time ago [00:24.96] [00:25.52]Before they knocked down the timber [00:29.27]And stripped mined all the coal [00:33.40] [00:34.97]When you rose up [00:36.14] [00:36.80]In the morning [00:38.02] [00:38.93]Before it was light [00:43.55] [00:44.11]To go down in that dark hole [00:47.50]And come back up at night [00:51.41] [00:57.33]I was born [00:58.66]On this mountain [01:00.17] [01:00.99]This mountain's my home [01:05.79] [01:06.77]She holds me and she keeps me [01:10.00]From a worry and a woe [01:14.76] [01:15.73]Well they took [01:16.51] [01:17.09]Everything she gave [01:19.58]She gave it now she's gone [01:23.90] [01:24.72]But I'll die on this mountain [01:27.96] [01:28.49]This mountain's my home [01:31.83] [01:53.02]I was young [01:53.74] [01:54.40]On this mountain [01:56.45]But now I am old [02:01.39] [02:02.22]And I knew every holler [02:05.31] [02:05.86]Every cool swimmin' hole [02:10.52] [02:11.49]'Til a one night I lay down [02:14.29] [02:15.02]And I woke up to find [02:20.00] [02:20.74]That my childhood was over [02:23.76] [02:24.26]I went back down in the mine [02:27.84] [02:33.96]There's a hole in this mountain [02:36.90] [02:37.66]It's dark and it's deep [02:42.52] [02:43.34]And God only knows [02:46.32] [02:47.14]All the secrets that it keeps [02:51.95] [02:52.79]There's a chill in the air [02:55.22] [02:56.41]Only miners can feel [03:01.07] [03:01.99]There's ghosts in the tunnels [03:05.08] [03:05.68]That the company sealed