Copperhill

[Verse 1]
A-way outside this little Tennessee town
Just past the Georgia line
You can see the scar where they dug the heart
Out of the mountainside
Judgement fell with the acid rain
Killed everything in sight when the miner’s came

[Chorus]
Now there’s a trail of tears leading out of this place
Trees are bare and the land is wasted
Can’t hear the song of the whippoorwill
Most of my kin buried up in that ground
Don’t live long if you don’t get out
Look what they’ve done to Copperhill

[Verse 2]
The risk was high but the pay was good
A man could make 10 more a week
While the children played on the slag and clay
Their daddy worked underneath
No, the mine don’t care if another one dies
Just the fatherless and the widow wives

[Chorus]
And there’s a trail of tears leading out of this place
Trees are bare and the land is wasted
Can’t hear the song of the whippoorwill
Most of my kin buried up in that ground
You don’t live long if you don’t get out
Look what they’ve done to Copperhill
Look what they’ve done to Copperhill
Look what they’ve done

[Guitar solo]

[Bridge]
Every once in a while, I drive back there
To remember
They say maybe someday the trout’ll come back
To the river

[Chorus]
There’s a trail of tears leading out of this place
Trees are bare and the land is wasted
Can’t hear the song of the whippoorwill
Most of my kin buried up in that ground
You don’t live long if you don’t get out
Look what they’ve done to Copperhill
Look what they’ve done to Copperhill
Look what they’ve done
Look what they’ve done

[Verse 1]
A-way outside this little Tennessee town
Just past the Georgia line
You can see the scar where they dug the heart
Out of the mountainside