To the Shining Mountains Lyrics
(Johnny Cash)
© '72 Song Of Cash Music, ASCAP
Yes went they through the Lehigh Valley to Lake Erie past Virginia
And the land called out its challenge bring your men the match our mountains
See the green Ohio Valley see the Cumberland the Wabash
On the Tennessee they floated on great rafts to the Mississippi
And the Cherokee and Shawnee and the Creek and the Ojibway
And the Choctaw and Quapaw
And all the tribes along the rivers knew ahead they they were coming
That the white man was upon them
They built their homes along the rivers built their churches brought their preachers
Came upon the wide Missouri stopped before the shining mountains
Many died from the beginning for the freedom of America
Like that day down in New Orleans
