The Greenbrier Ghost

Описание: LYRICS

Deep in the hollows where the hemlocks grow tall
Beneath the cold shadow of the mountain wall
Zonnie was a bride with a heart full of light
But she faded away in the middle of the night
They laid her to rest in the red mountain clay
Thinking the secrets would all wash away
But the spirit don't sleep when the heart's been betrayed
In the mist of the valley where the debt wasn't paid

Oh the Greenbrier ghost is a-walking tonight
Bringing the truth to the pale morning light
From the edge of the grave to the witness's stand
She told of the blow from a cruel husband’s hand
No shroud and no casket could keep her down low
Where the wild mountain laurels and rhododendrons grow

Four nights in a row to her mother she came
A chilling white shadow with no one to blame
She turned her head round and she showed her the crack
How Shue broke her neck and he bruised up her back
Mary Jane didn't falter she didn't feel fear
She listened to words that the dead came to clear
She went to the law with the story so strange
To get her poor daughter some peace and some change

Oh the Greenbrier ghost is a-walking tonight
Bringing the truth to the pale morning light
From the edge of the grave to the witness's stand
She told of the blow from a cruel husband’s hand
No shroud and no casket could keep her down low
Where the wild mountain laurels and rhododendrons grow

They dug up the earth and they opened the pine
To see what the doctor had failed to define
The jury they listened and the jury they knew
That the words of the spirit were honest and true
A trial for the ages where a ghost took the stand
To point out the killer in the West Virginia land

Oh the Greenbrier ghost is a-walking tonight
Bringing the truth to the pale morning light
From the edge of the grave to the witness's stand
She told of the blow from a cruel husband’s hand
No shroud and no casket could keep her down low
Where the wild mountain laurels and rhododendrons growNow the wind through the pines has a story to tell
Of a girl from the hills that we all knew so well
Rest easy fair Zonnie the truth has been found
Safe in the silence of the hallowed ground
Safe in the silence of the hallowed ground