Return To Windy Mountain

Return To Windy Mountain

Verse 1: Well I was born on windy mountain,

    Bramwell West Virginia is my home

    A little mining town in Mercer County,

    but as a boy I swore I’d never dig that coal

    As a boy I swore I would never dig that coal

    

Verse 2: At 16 years I hopped a freight train,

    set out to seek my fortune with a song

    This ole guitar my one companion,

    Lord I was born to be a rolling stone

    

Chorus: And I’ve roamed this world around

    from Maine to California

    But I’m missing where the tree tops drape the sky

    This ole troubadour is longing for the hills of West Virginia

    And, I’ll return to Windy Mountain before I die

    I’ll return to Windy Mountain before I die

    

Verse 3: I had a girl on Windy Mountain,

    with hair of gold and eyes of crystal blue

    A home and family she was counting,

    when I jumped that train it broke her heart in two

Chorus: And I’ve roamed this world around

    from Maine to California

    Left some pretty girls with teardrops in their eyes

    But the one I truly loved is waiting back in West Virginia

    So, I’ll return to windy mountain before I die

    I’ll return to windy mountain before I die

    

Verse 4: When I return to Windy Mountain

    and the good Lord takes me to my final home

    Bury me where the highland winds blow

    and place these lonesome words upon my stone

   

Chorus: He roamed this world around from Maine to California

      Now he’s resting where the tree tops drape the sky

      An ole troubadour at peace in the hills of West Virginia

      He returned to Windy Mountain before I die

      Now he lives on Windy Mountain up on high