In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain-The Carter Family/Gassie Bassett

[ti:In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain] [ar:The Carter Family] [al:Volume Two 1935-1941] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain - The Carter Family/Gassie Bassett [00:03.75]I grew up from the side of Clinch Mountain [00:07.69] [00:08.65]With the beauties and the music of the woods [00:13.27]This sweet song of the bright bubbling fountain [00:17.89] [00:18.48]And the warble of the birds I understood [00:22.41] [00:23.05]When I've sung my last song in the evening [00:27.37] [00:27.93]And the sun sets in the golden west [00:32.35] [00:33.18]All the scenes of this world I'll be leaving [00:37.25] [00:37.88]In the shadow of Clinch Mountain I will rest [00:42.24] [00:53.42]Long ago said the oak and the cedar [00:57.29] [00:58.24]Singing deeply in a whisper of the past [01:02.62] [01:03.17]Stood not then this great towering leader [01:07.43] [01:08.08]Nor the fountain where the crystal gems are kept [01:12.21] [01:12.94]When I've sung my last song in the evening [01:17.17] [01:17.88]And the sun sets in the golden west [01:22.85]All the scenes of this world I'll be leaving [01:26.84] [01:27.75]In the shadow of Clinch Mountain I will rest [01:31.87] [01:43.71]Then I asked how this green lofty mountain [01:47.70] [01:48.44]In the cauldron of the lonely desert stood [01:52.61] [01:53.33]Said this song of the bright sunny fountain [01:57.52] [01:58.19]We were given by the waters of the flood [02:02.20] [02:03.00]When I've sung my last song in the evening [02:07.04] [02:07.88]And the sun sets in the golden west [02:12.17] [02:12.79]All the scenes of this world I'll be leaving [02:16.74] [02:17.44]In the shadow of Clinch Mountain I will rest [02:21.60] [02:32.31]Out that gate I have passed since my childhood [02:37.23]Over the railway through the tunnel to the west [02:41.23] [02:41.95]Singing songs of the Clinch Mountain wild woods [02:46.11] [02:46.82]Songs that people found and birds loved the best [02:50.96] [02:51.68]When I've sung my last song in the evening [02:55.63] [02:56.47]And the sun sets in the golden west [03:00.62] [03:01.17]All the scenes of this world I'll be leaving [03:05.19] [03:06.24]In the shadow of Clinch Mountain I will rest