Fire On the Mountain

Took my family away from my Carolina home
 Had dreams about the West and started to roam
 Six long months on a dust-covered trail
 They say heaven's at the end, but so far it's been hell
 And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
 Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there
 We were diggin' and shiftin' from five to five
 Sellin' everythin' we found just to stay alive
 Gold flowed free like the whiskey in the bars
 Sinnin' was the big thing, Lord, and Satan was his star
 And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
 Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there
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 Dance hall girls were the evenin' treat
 Empty cartridges and blood lined the street
 Men were shot down for the sake of havin' fun
 Or just to hear the noise of their 44 guns
 And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
 Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there
 Now my widow, she weeps by my grave
 Tears flow free for her man she couldn't save
 Shot down in cold blood by a gun that carried fame
 All for the useless and no good, worthless claim
 And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
 Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there
 And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
 Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there
 Waitin' for me there
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 Waitin' for me there