Billy Bob Thornton
That Mountain
There's a big black trainI've been hearing all my lifeEvery night, at sundownI hear its lonesome cryWhen I look through the screen doorI see a rocking chairMy mama's sitting in itThinking 'bout that world out thereShe wants to go over that mountainTo see what's on the other sideShe said, "I want to go over that mountainBefore the day that I die"Well she's never set footOut of this poor valley hollerThough she talks about her dreamsOf some other way to flyEighty seven years of livingAnd never had much of anythingIs it asking too much to seeA damned old diesel train?She wants to go over that mountainSongtexteTo see what's on the other sideShe said, "I want to go over that mountainBefore the day that I die"Twenty years ago, todayMy daddy left this hollerHe said, "I'll be coming backTomorrow night"I remember the soundOf his boot heels in the gravelWell, he ain't been back sinceAnd he never said goodbyeShe wants to go over that mountainTo see what's on the other sideShe said, "I want to go over that mountainBefore the day that I dieBefore the day that I die"
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