Return To Windy Mountain

 
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Well I was born on Windy Mountain 
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Bramwell, West Virginia is my home 
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A little mining town in Mercer County 
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But as a boy I swore I'd never dig that coal 
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As a boy I swore I'd never dig that coal 
 

 
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At sixteen years, I hopped a freight train 
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Set out to seek my fortune with a song 
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This old guitar, my one companion 
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Lord, I was born to be a rollin' stone 
 

 
          G                    D 
And I roam this world around from Maine to California 
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But I'm missin' where the treetops drape the sky 
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This old troubadour is longing for the hills of West Virginia 
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And I'll return to Windy Mountain before I die 
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I'll return to Windy Mountain before I die 
 

 
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I had a girl on Windy Mountain 
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With hair of gold and eyes of crystal blue 
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A home and family she was countin' 
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When I hopped that train, it broke her heart in two 
 

 
            G                    D 
And I roam this world around from Maine to California 
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Left some pretty girls with teardrops in their eyes 
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But the one I truly love is back in West Virginia 
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So I'll return to Windy Mountain before I die 
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I'll return to Windy Mountain before I die 
 

 
          D                    G 
When I return to Windy Mountain 
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And the good Lord takes me to my final home 
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Bury me where the howlin' winds blow 
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And place these lonesome words upon my stone 
 

 
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"He roamed this world around from Maine to California 
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Now he's resting where the treetops drape the sky 
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An old troubadour at peace in the hills of West Virginia 
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He returned to Windy Mountain before he died 
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Now he lives on Windy Mountain up on high"