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 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 Waitin' for me there