Strip Mine Roads
Posted on March 24, 2010 | By Denny Tyler | No Comments
Lyrics & Credits
STRIP MINE ROADS
Words by Dick Ochs, to the tune Country Roads by John Denver, Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert
No more heaven, West Virginia
Mountaintop removal, poisoning the rivers
Coal is king here, cutting down the trees
Dusty ghost of mountains, blowing in the breeze
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CHORUS:
Strip mine roads, took my home
And the place, I once belonged
West Virginia, mountain blasting
Took my home, strip mine roads
All my memories, become forsaken
As the fish and wildlife, habitat is taken
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Barren sight of moonscape, teardrop in my eye
CHORUS
BRIDGE:
Global warming coal plants instead of wind and solar
Power lines remind me of destruction every day
Lookin down the road I get a feelin’ that
We shoulda stopped it yesterday, yesterday
CHORUS
(End: after last line of chorus)
Took my home, Heaven knows
Musicians:
Warren Greenberg
Margie Roswell (Guitar)
Dick Ochs (Washtub Bass)
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation’s character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us. – Aldo Leopold
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