And I, I know every holler, every cool swimmin' hole
There's a chill in the air only miners can feel
There's a hole in this mountain, it's dark and it's deep
‘Til one night, I lay down and I woke up to find
To go down in that dark hole and come a back up at night
I was young on this mountain but now I am old
She holds me and she keeps me from a worry and woe
That my childhood was over, I went back down in the mine
Well, they took everything she gave, she gave me now she's gone
I was born on this mountain, this mountain's my home
And God only knows all the secrets that it keeps
But I'll die on this mountain, this mountain's my home
When you rose up in a mornin' before it was daylight
