The Music

That Place Across the Mountains

Oh the sleepless nights in the cold dark hole, I go down in the coal mines for the coal dust to grab my soul 40 hours a week just to earn my pay, Oh these Appalachian Mountains I'll no longer stay

I've been working here since the age sixteen and there's a place across the mountains that I haven't seen And this way of life is a part of me, but that place across the mountains I must go and see

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Cause it's a dark and winding road, digging with a shovel to load another load And I know there's more to life than this; oh there's a place across the mountains that I just can't miss

Leaving here may save my life and make a better living for my two kids and wife

And I hope someday more will do the same cause breathing that ole coal dust may mean an early grave

(Chorus)

Cause it's a dark and winding road, digging with a shovel to load another load And I know there's more to life than this; and there's a place across the mountains that I just can't miss

(Chorus)

and there's a place across the mountains that I just can't miss

Bo Isaac, BMI (K and A Carriere Publishing, BMI)

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