Misc Traditional – Brown Mountain Light (Guitar)

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Way up on old Linville Mountain

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Where the bear and the catamount reign

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A strange ghostly light appears every night

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Which no scientist or hunter can explain.

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In the days of the old covered wagon

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When they camped on the flats for the night

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With the moon shinin’ dim o’er the old canyon rim

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They watched for that Brown Mountain Light.

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High on the mountain

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And down in the valley below

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And fades as the mists come and go

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Way over yonder

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Night after night until dawn

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Is searching, searching, searching for his master who’s long gone on.

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Many years ago a southern planter

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Came huntin’ in this wide world alone

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Then so they say the hunter lost his way

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And never returned to his home.

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His trusting ol’ slave brought a lantern

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And searched but in vain day and night

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Now the ol’ slave is gone but his spirit lingers on

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And his old lantern still casts it’s light.

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High on the mountain

    Bm                   D
And down in the valley below

    Bm                          A7
And fades as the mists come and go

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Way over yonder

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Night after night until dawn

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Is searching, searching, searching for his master who’s long gone on.

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For his master who’s long gone on.

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For his master who’s long gone on.