Snake Mountain Blues

By townes van zandt

Mr ten dollar man

Let me tell where you're bound

Drink your green liqour, lord

You'll roll to the ground

But you come around here

With your money in your hand

Taste of my woman

Well, you die where you stand

Snake mountain blues

Got me down low

I could die in the morning

But noone would know

When my woman come around

My body she'd find

Go down to dundee

Have her a time

Snake mountain gonna crumble

And fall from the sky

Before that woman of mine

Stops tellin' her lies

If I'd die, lord, she'd weep

She'd weep and she'd mourn

Soon as i's buried

Forget I'd been born

Love of blackskin woman

She won't do you no wrong

Slow to start moaning

She don't moan for long

Yellow headed woman

Brings nothing but pain

Take all you give her

She leaves only shame

My daddy, lord, he rides

On a long holy train

First winds of winter

I see him again

In this farewell to this

Yellow headed misery I've known

Snake mountain's calling

Calling me home

Snake mountain blues

Got me down low

I could die in the morning

But noone would know

When my woman come around

My body she'd find

Go down to dundee

Have her a time