YOU GAVE ME A MOUNTAIN 

Writer Marty Robbins





Born in the heat of the desert my mother died giving me life

Despised and disliked by my father blamed for the loss of his wife

You know Lord I've been in a prison for something I'd never done

It's been one hill after another and I've climbed them Lord one by one

But this time you gave me a mountain a mountain I may never climb

It isn't a hill any longer you gave me a mountain this time

My woman got tired of the hardships tired of the grief and the strife

Tired of working for nothing tired of being my wife

She took my one ray of sunshine she took my pride and my joy

She took my reason for living she took my small baby boy

And this time you gave me a mountain...