Born here in the desert
My mother died giving me life
Deprived of the love of a
father
Blamed for the loss
of his wife
You know Lord I've been in
a prison
For something I never done
There's been one hill after another
And I climbed them all one
by one
Well this time Lord 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
Oh
my home got tired of heartaches
Tired of the grief and the
strife
So tired of working for nothing
Just 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
Oh this time Lord 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
You gave me
a mountain
this time