And God only knows all the secrets that it keeps
There's a hole in this mountain, it's dark and it's deep
She holds me and she keeps me from a worry and woe
I was born on this mountain, this mountain's my home

Well, they took everything she gave, she gave me now she's gone
There's a chill in the air only miners can feel

‘Til one night, I lay down and I woke up to find
There's ghost in the tunnels that the company sealed
I was young on this mountain but now I am old
That my childhood was over, I went back down in the mine
But I'll die on this mountain, this mountain's my home
When you rose up in a mornin' before it was daylight
To go down in that dark hole and come a back up at night
And I, I know every holler, every cool swimmin' hole