Lookout Mountain Songtext / Lyric

November of '63

High above went down to sea

We were home in the lookout mountain



Couldn't see down through the clouds

But there wasn't any doubt

That there were Yankees there

Beyond the counting



The union guns began to roar

Firing up from the valley floor

And through the mist

It look like lightning



Muskets loud and blank

Up through the fall they came

I will not lie

Lord it was frightening



And the captain said

Boys ritsel high

If you listen you'll hear Gabriel's trumpets sounding






And heaven's just a step away

For the brave men who will die on lookout mountain



Our cannons could not fire

Straight down mountain side

And the yankee boys, they drew closer



The odds were 6 to 1

So the captain ground said son

And you were wrong

I told him: no sir



In the driving rain

With the powder gone

We sent boulders crashing down around them



Well we done our bid

But they would not turn

We could not hold them off on lookout mountain



We saw that all hope was gone

With the thought of the folks at home

If we ran in the woods

Surely disgrace them



Slowly as the bullets flew

But it was just one thing to do

I sit in prayer

Turned to face them



Well we shot them down

But there was no pain

In the darkness one more rebel heart stopped pounding



At the morning light

I was glory bound

Before the rakes put the union flag on lookout mountain



At the morning light

I was glory bound

Before the rakes put the union flag on lookout mountain