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The Mountain
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Levon Helm
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I was born on this mountain a long long time ago
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Before they knocked down the timber and stripped mined all the coal
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When you rose up in the morning 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 she keeps me from a worry and a woe
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Well they took everything she gave, she gave it now she's 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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Til a one night I lay down and I woke up to find
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That my childhood was over I went back down in the mine
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There's a hole in this mountain it's dark and it's deep
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And God only knows all the secrets that 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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