Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song There Goes The Mountain , by - Tom Paxton. Song from the album Best Of The Vanguard Years, in the genre Release date: 31.12.2005
Record label: Vanguard
Song language: English
There Goes The Mountain |
| 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 |