Fire On The Mountain

Took my family away from our 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 lightening in the air 
Gold in them hills and it's waiting for me there

We were digging and shifting from five to five
Selling everything we found just to stay alive
Gold flowed free like the whiskey in the bars
Sinning was the big thing Lord and Satan was the star
And there's fire on the mountain lightening in the air 
Gold in them hills and it's waiting for me there

Dance hall girls were the evening treat
Empty cartridges and blood lined the gutters of the street
Men were shot down for the sake of fun
Or just to hear the noise of their 44 guns
And there's fire on the mountain lightening in the air 
Gold in them hills and it's waiting 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 lightening in the air 
Gold in them hills and it's waiting for me there