That Mountain Lyrics - Singles - Billy Bob Thornton

There's a big black train 

I've been hearing all my life 

Every night, at sundown 

I hear its lonesome cry 

When I look through the screen door 

I see a rocking chair 

My mama's sitting in it 

Thinking 'bout that world out there 

She wants to go over that mountain 

To see what's on the other side 

She said, "I want to go over that mountain 

Before the day that I die" 

Well she's never set foot 

Out of this poor valley holler 

Though she talks about her dreams 

Of some other way to fly 

Eighty seven years of living 

And never had much of anything 

Is it asking too much to see 

A damned old diesel train? 

She wants to go over that mountain 

To see what's on the other side 

She said, "I want to go over that mountain 

Before the day that I die" 

Twenty years ago, today 

My daddy left this holler 

He said, "I'll be coming back 

Tomorrow night" 

I remember the sound 

Of his boot heels in the gravel 

Well, he ain't been back since 

And he never said goodbye 

She wants to go over that mountain 

To see what's on the other side 

She said, "I want to go over that mountain 

Before the day that I die 

Before the day that I die"