Across the Great Divide

I've been walkin' in my sleep

Countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep

Where the years went, I can't say

I just turned around and they've gone away

And I've been siftin' through the layers

Of dusty books and faded papers

That tell a story I used to know

And it was one that happened so long ago

CHORUS 1:

And it's gone away in yesterday

Now I find myself on a mountainside

Where the rivers change direction

Across the Great Divide

Now I heard the owl callin'

Softly as the night was fallin'

With a question, and I replied

But he's gone across the borderline

CHORUS 2:

He's gone away in yesterday

Now I find myself on a mountainside

Where the rivers change direction

Across the Great Divide

The finest hour that I have seen

Is the one that comes between

The edge of night and the break of day

It's when the darkness rolls away

(Repeat first chorus x 2)