Return To Windy Mountain
Verse 1: Well I was born on windy mountain,
Bramwell West Virginia is my home
A little mining town in Mercer County,
but as a boy I swore I’d never dig that coal
As a boy I swore I would never dig that coal
Verse 2: At 16 years I hopped a freight train,
set out to seek my fortune with a song
This ole guitar my one companion,
Lord I was born to be a rolling stone
Chorus: And I’ve roamed this world around
from Maine to California
But I’m missing where the tree tops drape the sky
This ole troubadour is longing for the hills of West Virginia
And, I’ll return to Windy Mountain before I die
I’ll return to Windy Mountain before I die
Verse 3: I had a girl on Windy Mountain,
with hair of gold and eyes of crystal blue
A home and family she was counting,
when I jumped that train it broke her heart in two
Chorus: And I’ve roamed this world around
from Maine to California
Left some pretty girls with teardrops in their eyes
But the one I truly loved is waiting back in West Virginia
So, I’ll return to windy mountain before I die
I’ll return to windy mountain before I die
Verse 4: When I return to Windy Mountain
and the good Lord takes me to my final home
Bury me where the highland winds blow
and place these lonesome words upon my stone
Chorus: He roamed this world around from Maine to California
Now he’s resting where the tree tops drape the sky
An ole troubadour at peace in the hills of West Virginia
He returned to Windy Mountain before I die
Now he lives on Windy Mountain up on high