That Mountain Lyrics

That Mountain lyrics

There's a big black train

I've been hearing all my life

Every night, at sundown

I hear its lonesome cry



When I look through the screen door

I see a rocking chair

My mama's sitting in it

Thinking 'bout that world out there



She wants to go over that mountain

To see what's on the other side

She said, "I want to go over that mountain

Before the day that I die"



Well she's never set foot

Out of this poor valley holler

Though she talks about her dreams

Of some other way to fly



Eighty seven years of living

And never had much of anything

Is it asking too much to see

A damned old diesel train?



She wants to go over that mountain

To see what's on the other side

She said, "I want to go over that mountain

Before the day that I die"



Twenty years ago, today

My daddy left this holler

He said, "I'll be coming back

Tomorrow night"



I remember the sound

Of his boot heels in the gravel

Well, he ain't been back since

And he never said goodbye



She wants to go over that mountain

To see what's on the other side

She said, "I want to go over that mountain

Before the day that I die

Before the day that I die"