I was born on this mountain

A long long time ago

Before they knocked down the timber

And stripped mined all the coal

When you rose up

In the morning

Before it was light

To go down in that dark hole

And come back up at night

I was born

On this mountain

This mountain's my home

She holds me and she keeps me

From a worry and a woe

Well they took

Everything she gave

She gave it now she's gone

But I'll die on this mountain

This mountain's my home

I was young

On this mountain

But now I am old

And I knew every holler

Every cool swimmin' hole

'Til a one night I lay down

And I woke up to find

That my childhood was over

I went back down in the mine

There's a hole in this mountain

It's dark and it's deep

And God only knows

All the secrets that it keeps

There's a chill in the air

Only miners can feel

There's ghosts in the tunnels

That the company sealed