Highwall Blues

Mike Caplinger and Granny's 12 Gauge, Copyright 1997.

He'd mine his mother's grave if there was money to be made

He don't care where it comes from as long as he gets paid

I bet that man from the city is wracked with pain and pity

Cause he's never had to lose or had the

Highwall Blues

They filled in all the hollows and they flattened out the hills

Said that damn new mine would cure all our ills

But they colored all our water and cut down all the trees

That man with the money can do just what he please

Chorus:

I bet that man from the city, is wracked with pain and pity

'Cause he's never had to lose or had the

Highwall Blues

They came and tore the house apart with a rusty old D-9

Said to move it back a-ways and everything'd be fine

But I must of worked a thousand nights out in a thousand storms

Tryin' to keep the wolf away from what used to be my door

Chorus:

I bet that man from the city, is wracked with pain and pity

'Cause he's never had to lose or had the

Highwall Blues

I gave that shack my livin' and my body and my back

Now they moved me to a trailer park and said that that was that

Sometimes I think I'd like to sit and aim down at that road

And give them forty rounds for the goodness that they've showed

Chorus:

I bet that man from the city is wracked with pain and pity

'Cause he's never had to lose or had the

Highwall Blues

Highwall Blues, Highwall Blues....

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