Brown Mountain Light

Traditional

Key

Verse

Way up on old Linville Mountain

Where the bear and the catamount reign

A strange ghostly light appears every night

Which no scientist or hunter can explain.

Verse

In the days of the old covered wagon

When they camped on the flats for the night

With the moon shinin' dim o'er the old canyon rim

They watched for that brown mountain light.

Chorus

High on the mountain

And down in the valley below

It shines like the crown of an angel

And fades as the mists come and go

Verse

Way over yonder

Night after night until dawn

A faithful old slave comes back from the grave

Is searching for his master who's long gone.

Verse

Many years ago a southern planter

Came huntin' in this wide world alone

Then so they say the hunter lost his way

And never returned to his home.

Verse

His trusting ol' slave brought a lantern

And searched but in vain day and night

Now the ol' slave is gone

but his spirit lingers on

And the lantern it still casts it's light.