Claude King - Green Mountain lyrics

At the bottom of Green Mountain William Deacon stands and stares into the rain

With coal grey eyes yellow teeth and a face that shows the strain

Of his fight against the people who would cut Green Mountain down

To paid away for what they say is a short cut in the town

Their sugar and the gas tanks of the dosers and the graters and mud

The grits they finished yesterday was washed away by last night's ragin' flood

And the dam went out with dynamite strollin's from the work through shack

But the coal grey eyes of William Deacon never once looked back

They're gonna move Green Mountain he can't stand in the way

But William Deacon swears Green Mountain's gonna stay

They're gonna move Green Mountain at least that's what they say

But there he stands lookin' twice as big as he did yesterday

For hundred years and more the Deacon Clan has planned Green Mountain as dear home

But the highway department don't have the sence to leave well enough alone

Witn an iron hand he raised ten kids and taught 'em right from wrong

And then trouble come the Deacon Clan can be mighty bight and strong

They carried William Deacon's body down from old Green Mountain yesterday

He was crashed by a rollin' grabble truck when he stepped out into the way

The forman round then said well now the work can start again

But he forgot the family pride of all the Deacon Clan

They're gonna move Green Mountain...