Old Crow Medicine Show - Used To Be A Mountain lyrics

If you're thumbin' down a dog-town road
With your tongue back, draggin' ass
Hotter than a train track
Harlan up to Middlesboro
With your coal seam, jimson weed, wildcat
Wind speed
Big Sandy to the Big O
On an overdrive mainline
Try to clear Kentucky alive
My, my, such a lost tribe

Don't you know
Don't you know
Don't you know
Don't you know, you know, you know

There used to be a mountain here
There used to be a river so clear
We could swim to the bottom
There was heart, there was soul
But I guess that we forgot 'em
'Cause there ain't nothin' standin'
Out the window
But a sign on a slag pile
It says
It said there used to be a mountain here

If you're thumbin' down a drag-mine road
And your quickset toothache needs
A little opiate
Lookin' for a pot a-gold
With a go-devil, Honda rebel
OxyContin coal shovel
Climb on up the tipple and go
Straight to a gunnysack, polecat
Mitch'll have a heart attack, you know

Don't you know
Don't you know
Don't you know, you know, you know

There used to be a mountain here
There used to be a river so clear
We could swim to the bottom
There was heart, there was soul
But I guess that we forgot 'em
'Cause there ain't nothin' standin'
Out the window
But a sign on a slag pile
It says
It said there used to be a mountain here

There used to be a house on the edge of town
There used to be a job and a roller rink
Church on Sunday, passin' the plate around
There used to be a river full of catfish
We'd catch, just to let 'em go
Ah, we used to let it flow
But now, we've let ourselves go
Hey

So, if you're thumbin' down
A coal town road
And you're all jacked, smoke-stacked
Suckin' on a thumb tack
Swingin' at the end of ya rope
From a shoelace, total waste
Sign your whole life away
Don't forget the debt that you're owed
From the fat cats, race rats, big Pharma
Tall stacks
They're the ones a-diggin' the hole
All the way down to Guangzhou

Don't you know
Don't you know
Don't you know
Don't you know, you know, you know

There used to be a mountain here
There used to be a river so clear
We could swim to the bottom
There was heart, there was soul
But I guess that we forgot 'em
'Cause there ain't nothin' standin'
Out the window
But a sign on a slag pile
It says
It said there used to be a mountain here
(Hey, hey, hey)
There used to be a mountain here
(Hey, hey, hey, hey)
There used to be a mountain here
(Hey, hey, hey, hey)
There used to be a mountain