I Comed Down from the Mountain

I didn't come'd down from the mountain

To worship no golden calf

I come'd down from the mountain

So folks could come on back

(I comed down from the mountain)

They starved us off of the mountain

When the coal mine shuttered closed

All the folks is leaving

Since their homes did got foreclosed

My cool sweet mountain voice

Was God's good gift to me

Now I'm cutting records

Down in Tennessee

Us mountain folks come down

Only now and then

We'll go home to the mountains

Any time we can

(I comed down from the mountain)

Oh my family mountain

With your cool sweet mountain dew

I cried, and cried, and cried the day

I walk on down from you

My voice was my only choice

For bringing back my kin

They love my sound in Nashville

But I ain't fittin in

(I comed down from the mountain)

Record folk keep telling me

I'll make it to the top

Back on top of the mountain

Is the only dream I got

I'll come home to my mountain

Where I once lived before

Back on home to my cabin

With the cool dirt mountain floor

No left turn at the valley

No right turn at the bend

There's one way to the mountain

And it's all uphill again

Climbing up is easy

When home is at the top

Climbing up is easy

When hope is all you got

(I'm going back home to the mountain)