Mountain Woman

They lived together in a dirty old shack

At the edge of the black rocky mountain

And they drank mountain dew and they lived on the food

That they grew at the side of the mountain

She's a mountain woman, he's her mountain man

Lived all their lives by the valley

She's a mountain woman, he's her mountain man

Uneducated but they're happy

Mountain woman couldn't read nor write

But she knew good from evil, she know wrong from right

When the government tried to buy her water rights

Her intuition was her only guide

She's a mountain woman, he's her mountain man

Lived all their lives by the valley

She's a mountain woman, he's her mountain man

Uneducated but they're happy

Spend my life with my mountain woman

We're uneducated by we're happy

The civil servant used compulsory purchase

To acquire the valley for the nation

They'll dig up the land, they're gonna make a dam

And build a hydroelectric power station

And now she lives on the 33rd floor

Of a man-made concrete mountain

She got an elevator and refrigerator

And an automobile to run around in

Fast talkin' lawyers from the government

Wouldn't beat proud mountain woman down

Hey mountain woman, take your mountain man

They took your land and flood your valley

Spend my life with my mountain woman

They're uneducated by they're happy