[04:39.00]There's a big black train
[04:39.00]I've been hearing all my life
[04:39.00]Every night, at sundown
[04:39.00]I hear its lonesome cry
[04:39.00]
[04:39.00]When I look through the screen door
[04:39.00]I see a rocking chair
[04:39.00]My mama's sitting in it
[04:39.00]Thinking 'bout that world out there
[04:39.00]
[04:39.00]She wants to go over that mountain
[04:39.00]To see what's on the other side
[04:39.00]She said,"I want to go over that mountain
[04:39.00]Before the day that I die"
[04:39.00]
[04:39.00]Well she's never set foot
[04:39.00]Out of this poor valley holler
[04:39.00]Though she talks about her dreams
[04:39.00]Of some other way to fly
[04:39.00]
[04:39.00]Eighty seven years of living
[04:39.00]And never had much of anything
[04:39.00]Is it asking too much to see
[04:39.00]A damned old diesel train?
[04:39.00]
[04:39.00]She wants to go over that mountain
[04:39.00]To see what's on the other side
[04:39.00]She said,"I want to go over that mountain
[04:39.00]Before the day that I die"
[04:39.00]
[04:39.00]Twenty years ago, today
[04:39.00]My daddy left this holler
[04:39.00]He said,"I'll be coming back
[04:39.00]Tomorrow night"
[04:39.00]
[04:39.00]I remember the sound
[04:39.00]Of his boot heels in the gravel
[04:39.00]Well, he ain't been back since
[04:39.00]And he never said goodbye
[04:39.00]
[04:39.00]She wants to go over that mountain
[04:39.00]To see what's on the other side
[04:39.00]She said,"I want to go over that mountain
[04:39.00]Before the day that I die
[04:39.00]Before the day that I die"