There Goes The Mountain - Tom Paxton

There goes the mountain, father of fir trees

Home for the grizzlies, under its snow

Shorn of its timber, torn by the monsters

Taken by truckloads to the great plains below

There goes the mountain, the avalanche maker

Heaven’s caretaker, breeder of streams

There goes the mountain, maker of thunder

Torn down for the plunder, remembered in dreams

There goes the mountain, greeter of sunrise

Giant by starlight, the highest and best

The roar of the engines, the first in its lifetime

Will take what men value and spit out the rest

And there goes the mountain, the avalanche maker

Heaven’s caretaker, breeder of streams

There goes the mountain, maker of thunder

Torn down for the plunder, remembered in dreams

Lord of the highlands, home for the eagles

Catcher of snowfalls for millions of years

Bleeding in mudslides, robbed of its insides

Prey to the skills of the bold engineer

And there goes the mountain, the avalanche maker

Heaven’s caretaker, breeder of streams

There goes the mountain, maker of thunder

Torn down for the plunder, remembered in dreams