Mountain Angel

Pretty as an angel from the day that she was born
 Skin as fair as Lily's hair, as golden as the corn
 They knew that she was special
 From the moment she first cried
 She was a mountain angel certified
 She was her momma's baby, she was her daddy's pride
 Good at home, at church and school, at everything she tried
 Everybody's darling led a charmed and peaceful life
 The perfect mountain angel 'til he arrived
 And oh, she fell so deeply
 Oh, she couldn't stop
 She gave herself to him, milled it completely
 He lifted her so high then let her drop
 She gave up everything for him that mattered in her life
 All the others that had loved her and she vowed to be his wife
 She dreamed of bearing children in an ivy-covered house
 The mountain angel's sunshine turned to clouds
 The wicked handsome stranger left the way he came
 Broke her heart and broke her mind
 She never was the same
 They say he was the devil
 That had come to steal her soul
 She never loved another it was told
 They say she had a baby
 Some say that it had died
 They say it's just as well
 As it had been the devil's child
 They say good conquers evil
 But here, evil won the prize
 So the mountain angel took to the wild
 And oh, she couldn't take it
 Years passed and she had long since lost her mind
 She waited for him as her beauty faded
 Her parents died from grief before their time
 She tried to gather pieces of her life, they wouldn't fit
 Beside the tiny grave deep in the woods is where she'd sit
 Talking to the child, herself, to him, who knew for sure
 Possessed they say by Satan's insane lure
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 High top the mountain, for years they say she's seen
 Looking down upon the town where she had once been queen
 She'd sneak around the playground, watch the little children play
 They'd see the crazy lady, then run away
 They say she roamed these hills for years, wearing not a stitch
 The lovely mountain angel now thought to be a witch
 She made those wailing mournful sounds
 That you could hear for miles
 Long after she laid down upon her baby's grave and died
 And oh, her ghost is calling
 She's waiting for the ones that she adored
 Through spring and summer, fall when snow is falling
 Her spirit roams these hills forevermore
 The mountain angel's voices evermore