There Goes The Mountain

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Thomas Richard "Tom" Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for fifty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. more »

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There goes the mountain, father of fir trees
 Home for the grizzlies, under its snow
 Shorn of its 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 its 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 its 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

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