Take Me To The Mountains






Reference:

Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals

Classic Bluegrass

Company: Rebel CD-1111

Sung in G on CD





[G] Well I motored into Houston, a town I'd seen before

I thought of an old Army pal of a thousand days or [D] more

[C] Found him on a [G] VA ward a [Em]  lookin' mightY low

On the [C]  far end of a long [G]  long trip without [D]  many miles to [G]  go





When I told him the Carolina Hills were calling back to me

He said I think I told you once I was born in Tennessee

If I could see those hills one time I'd die more easily

The he took my had and he bowed his head and this is what he said to me





CHO:

[G] Take me with you to the mountains won't you please

let me walk the blue ridge, let me count a million [D] trees

[C] Houston ain't no place to [G]  die and I'd be [Em]  satisfied if I

Could [C] walk a little closer [G] to the sky in the [D]  mountains won't you [G] please.





Well a pardon from a VA ward just ain't so easy won

But a good old friend and doctor there said it could be done

and in a little while with the road in our way underneath that Texas Sun

And we both knew in a day or two his race would be run





Well he'd talk awhile and he'd sleep a while and I drove with all I had

Right side Atlanta though he got to looking bad

Just keep right on a-truckin boys we'll make it now he said

When the blue Ridge came in sight a corpse is all I had.





CHO





Well there are songs that are not sung and words that are not read

But the lines that rhyme that are out of time still echo in my head

That dyin' in my footsteps sure beats that Houston bed.



CHO. 



Lyrics supplied by Charles C. Haynie.