Lyrics for singles by Marshall Tucker Band

Fire On The Mountain

Took my family away from my Carolina home
Had dreams about the West and started to roam
Six long months on a dust covered trail
They say heaven's at the end but so far it's been hell

And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there

We were diggin' and siftin' from five to five
Sellin' everything we found just to stay alive
Gold flowed free like the whiskey in the bars
Sinnin' was the big thing, Lord and Satan was his star

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Dance hall girls were the evenin' treat
Empty cartridges and blood lined the gutters of the street
Men were shot down for the sake of fun
Or just to hear the noise of their forty-four guns

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Now my widow she weeps by my grave
Tears flow free for her man she couldn't save
Shot down in cold blood by a gun that carried fame
All for a useless and no good worthless claim

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Can't You See

Gonna take a freight train, down at the station, Lord
I don't care where it goes
Gonna climb a mountain, the highest mountain, Lord
And jump off, nobody gonna know
Can't you see, oh, can't you see
What that woman, Lord
She been doin' to me
Can't you see, can't you see
What that woman, been doin' to me

I'm gonna find me a hole in the wall
I'm gonna crawl inside and die
Call my lady now, a mean old woman, Lord
Never told me goodbye
Can't you see, oh, can't you see
What that woman, Lord, she been doin' to me
Can't you see, can't you see
What that woman, Lord, she been doin' to me

Gonna buy a ticket now, as far as I can
Ain't a never comin' back
Ride me a south-bound
All the way to Georgia now
'Till that train it run out of track
Can't you see, oh, can't you see
What that woman, Lord, she been doin' to me
Can't you see, can't you see
What that woman, she been doin' to me, oh Lord

Can't you see, oh, can't you see
What that woman, Lord, she been doin' to me
Can't you see, oh, can't you see
What that woman, she been doin' to me

Can't you see, oh, She's such a crazy lady
What that woman, What that woman Lord
she been doin' to me
Can't you see, I can't stand to see
can't you see
What that woman, oh, she been doin' to me

Gonna take a freight train, down at the station, Lord
Ain't never comin' back
Ride me a south-bound
All the way to Georgia, Lord
'Till that train run out of track

Heard it in a Love Song

I ain't never been with a woman long enough for my boots to get old
We've been together so long now they both need resoled

If I ever settled down you'd be my kind
And it's a good time for me to head on down the line

Heard it in a love song
Heard it in a love song
Heard it in a love song
Can't be wrong

I'm the kinda man likes to get away
Like to start dreaming about tomorrow, today
Never said that I loved you, even though it's so
Where's that duffle bag of mine?  It's time to go

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I'm gonna be leaving at the break of dawn
Wish you could come, but I don't need no woman taggin' along
I'll sneak out that door --- couldn't stand to see you cry
I'd stay another year if I saw teardrops in your eyes

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I never had a damn thing, but what I had, I had to leave it behind
You're the hardest thing I ever tried to get off of my mind
Always something greener on the other side of that hill
I was born a wrangler and a rounder and I guess I always will

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