Mountain Angel

(Dolly Parton)



Pretty as an angel from the day that she was born

Skin as fair as lily's hair, as golden as the corn

They knew that she was specia', from the moment she first cried

She was a mountain angel, certified.



She was her Mama's baby, she was her Daddy's pride

Good at home, at church and school, at everything she tried

Everybody's darlin' led a charmed and peaceful life

The perfect mountain angel 'til he arrived.



And oh, she fell so deeply

Oh, she couldn't stop

She gave herself to him, milled it completely

He lifted her so high, he let her drop.



She gave up everything for him, that mattered in her life

All the others that had loved her and she vowed to be his wife

She dreamed of bearing children in an ivy-covered house

The mountain angel's sunshine turned to clouds.



The wicked, handsome stranger left the way he came

Broke her heart and broke her mind, she never was the same

They say he was the devil that had come to steal her soul

She never loved another, it was told.



They say, she had a baby some say that it had died

They say, it's just as well, as it had been the devil's child

They say, good conquers evil but here, evil won the prize

So the mountain angel took to the wild.



And oh, oh, she couldn't take it

Years passed and she had long since lost her mind

She waited for him as her beauty faded

Her parents died from grief before their time.



She tried to gather pieces of her life, they wouldn't fit

Beside the tiny grave, deep in the woods is where she'd sit

Talking to the child, herself, to him, who knew for sure

Possessed they say, by Satan's insane lure.



High atop the mountain, for years they say, she's seen

Looking down upon the town where she had once been queen

She'd sneak around the playground, watch the little children play

They'd see the crazy lady, then run away.



They say she roamed these hills for years, wearing not a stitch

The lovely mountain angel, now thought to be a witch

She made those wailing, mournful sounds that you could hear for miles

Long after, she laid down upon her baby's grave and died.



And oh, her ghost is callin'

She's waiting for the ones that she adored

Through spring and summer, fall when snow is fallin'

Her spirit roams these hills forever more.



The mountain angel's voices ever more, oh, oh, oh...