Dark Mountainside

[Verse 1]
I never cared for things love had to offer
I said it wouldn't let it cut me down
But just one look at her, oh how my heart did yearn
For the little girl with her hair sandy brown

[Verse 2]
Just one short month that we had been together
When I thought I would surely make her mine
When I knew that another loved her too
And he stole my little sweetheart in the night

[Verse 3]
For three whole months I followed close behind him
Across the hills and valleys so wide
But when I caught him there, my heart filled with despair
For in that moment, he had took her now

[Verse 4]
Can’t you hear them whippoorwills a-cryin'
Just to listen to their sad, mournful sounds
On a dark mountainside, beneath the starry sky
She's sleepin’ out there, on the cold, cold ground

[Verse 5]
He fled like a coward in the darkness
And I pursued with everything I had
When he got caught in the brush, I emptied out my gun
And I left him there to face death's bitter judgment

[Verse 6]
I'm there with my Mary on the hillside
Right next to my place where she fell
As the tears swelled in my eyes, that cold, dreadful night
I knew that I would never love again

[Verse 7]
Can't you hear them whippoorwills a-cryin'
Just to listen to their sad, mournful sounds
On a dark mountainside, beneath the starry sky
She's sleepin' out there, on the cold, cold ground