Harder Than Steel

Have you heard the red hawk's cry
 In the morning high on Roan Mountain
 When the sun comes up over Carolina hills
 The wind sweeps softly through the pines
 Have you seen the blue smoke rise
 From the chimney down in the valley
 Where the big water wheel
 Turns the iron ore to steel
 Harder than a heart that's made of stone
 The trail
 Winds up
 Past the rocks and the boughs of the Roan
 And it's leading me back to the old home 'neath the pines
 Why did I decide to roam
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 I had shared the stream with the wounded
 I washed my eyes that were blind from the gun smoke
 And when the fighting was all done
 And we knew that we had won
 We laid our brothers in the ground
 Every spring I return to Roan Mountain
 Just to search for the heart that was lost there
 And I look for the stones
 That mark long forgotten bones
 Harder than the steel that cut them down
 The trail
 Winds up
 Past the rocks and the boughs of the Roan
 And it's leading me back to the old home 'neath the pines
 Why did I decide to roam
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 Have you heard the red hawk's cry
 In the morning high on Roan Mountain
 When the sun comes up over Carolina hills
 Why did I decide to roam