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This classic bluegrass song (originally composed by Jim Scott) doesn’t need much by way of explanation.

The Ghosts of Johnson City close Am I Born to Die? with a raucous, yet dark tune expressing the singer’s wish to join his beloved in her grave ‘on that mountain far away’, and recounting that he cried at her burial until ‘the last old shovel was laid down.’

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They buried her on the side of the mountain

There my darling sleeps in the ground

I stayed by her side 'til they covered her over

And the last old shovel was laid down



Till the last old shovel was laid down, laid down

Till the last old shovel was laid down

I stayed by her side and I cried and I cried

When the last old shovel was laid down



I think of her when it's stormy and raining

In that mountain far away

I long to be laid by her side on that mountain

There'll be rest for me on that day



There'll be rest for me on that day, that day

There'll be rest for me on that day

I long to be laid by her side on that mountain

On that mountain far away



Oh bury me where my true love is sleeping

Where she lies in that lonesome ground

I'll find sweet rest by the side of my darling

When the last old shovel is laid down



When the last old shovel is laid down, laid down

When the last old shovel is laid down

I'll find sweet rest by the side of my darling

When the last old shovel is laid down

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from Am I Born to Die?, released October 20, 2015
Written by Jim Scott

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The Ghosts of Johnson City Portland, Maine

Based in Maine with musical roots in Appalachia and the Deep South, The Ghosts of Johnson City present simple and soulful versions of old mountain music, Civil War songs, coal-mining melodies, disaster chronicles, haunting murder ballads and tunes of love and loss in times of poverty. ... more

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