[Short Instrumental Intro] [Verse] I woke to find the shed door swingin' Copper gone and the fire pit cold Grandpappy's still, six generations Worth more to me than a vein of gold Mama cried, said "Dale, don't do it" Daddy handed me his coat Said "Son, the Tatums took our birthright Bring it back or don't come home" [Chorus] Grievance Mountain I'm comin' up your stony side Grievance Mountain You can't hold what the Tatums hide Steep and cruel and crowned in briar But I was born of copper fire Grievance Mountain [Fiddle Break] [Verse] Twelve miles up through laurel thickets Left my truck where the road runs out Every Buckner learned one lesson: What's took from you, you take back out Passed the church my grandma prayed in Passed the graves of kin long gone Every stone I passed said one thing: Boy, you best keep walkin' on [Chorus] Grievance Mountain I'm comin' up your stony side Grievance Mountain You can't hold what the Tatums hide Steep and cruel and crowned in briar But I was born of copper fire Grievance Mountain [Banjo Break] [Bridge] They say no Buckner's crossed that ridge line Not since nineteen fifty-two When Great Uncle Ray went up there And all they found was his left shoe [Verse] Now the sun is sinkin' redder And the tree line's gettin' thin I can smell their woodsmoke burnin' Smell my copper cookin' in it And I understand my grandpappy Why he named this mountain so It ain't the mountain holds the grievance It's every man that's had to go [Chorus] Grievance Mountain I'm standin' on your stony crown Grievance Mountain What the Tatums took comes down Steep and cruel and crowned in briar But I was born of copper fire Grievance Mountain [Outro] Born of copper fire Grievance Mountain
