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No Business Mountain

from Ghost Train by Jacob and the Ghost Train

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Based on the legend of No Business Mountain in Big Island, VA

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Excuse me mam, do you think you can
Take a look at this? Have you seen this man?
Look a little closer; do you think you recognize his face?

I saw him on 526
In a government car deep in the sticks;
Remember thinking to myself that he seemed mighty out of place.

Driving North from the county seat
The asphalt gives way to farms then trees,
And people get a little closer as the spaces in between 'em grow.

Like grass killed under dead dry leaves,
The secrets that nobody breathes here
Are buried in the forest and their murkier the deeper you go.

A man goes up
And he pokes around.
A man goes up
And he don't come down.

Pardon me sir, I don't mean to disturb you,
I've got some questions and from what I've heard
You might could give me answers; can we talk and can you drop the gun?

I know jack shit about your revenue man
'cept he had no business up here and
You got less, so if I was you I'd turn and run.

Now each night I hear his angry grizzled voice
Reminding me to mind my coward's choice:

Come and meet me on the ridge
With a shovel and a pick to break the ground,
Or stay at home and mind your business,
If you don't wanna end up lost up on this mountain.

Come and meet me on the ridge
With a shovel and a pick to break the ground,
Or stay at home and mind your business,
If you don't wanna end up lost up on this mountain.

A man goes up
And he pokes around.
A man goes up
And he don't come down.

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from Ghost Train, released July 18, 2015

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