Tom Paxton - There Goes the Mountain lyrics
[Tom Paxton - There Goes the Mountain lyrics]
Home for the grizzlies, under it's snow
Shorn of it's timber, torn by the monsters
Taken by truckloads to the great plains below
There goes the mountain, the avalanche maker
Heaven's caretaker, breeder of streams
There goes the mountain, maker of thunder
Torn down for the plunder
Remembered in dreams
There goes the mountain, greeter of sunrise
Giant by starlight, the highest and best
The roar of the engines
The first in it's lifetime
Will take what men value and
Spit out the rest
And there goes the mountain
The avalanche maker
Heaven's caretaker, breeder of streams
There goes the mountain, maker of thunder
Torn down for the plunder
Remembered in dreams
Lord of the highlands, home for the eagles
Catcher of snowfalls for millions of years
Bleeding in mudslides, robbed of it's insides
Prey to the skills of the bold engineer
And there goes the mountain
The avalanche maker
Heaven's caretaker, breeder of streams
There goes the mountain, maker of thunder
Torn down for the plunder
Remembered in dreams