Fire on the Mountain

Took my family away from my Carolina home

Had dreams about the West and started to roam

Six long months on a dust-covered trail

They say heaven's at the end, but so far, it's been hell

And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air

Gold in them hills, and it's waitin' for me there

We were diggin' and siftin' from five 'til five

Sellin' everything we found just to stay alive

Gold flowed free like the whiskey in the bars

Sinnin' was the big thing, Lord, and Satan was the star

And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air

Gold in them hills, and it's waitin' for me there

Dance hall girls were the evenin' treat

Empty cartridges and blood lines the gutters of the street

Men were shot down for the sake of fun

Or just to hear the noise of their forty-four guns

And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air

Gold in them hills, and it's waitin' for me there

Now my widow, she weeps by my grave

Tears flow free for her man she couldn't save

Shot down in cold blood by a gun that carried fame

All for a useless and no-good worthless claim

And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air

Gold in them hills, and it's waitin' for me there

Fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air

Gold in them hills, and it's waitin' for me there

Waitin' for me there