Verse 1 High on Wopsy Mountain when the winter came down hard, A warm light from the hotel fought the dark. A young bride and her husband took the mountain road too fast, With a lantern and a promise meant to last. Verse 2 The horses slipped on ice and stone where the sharp bend lay, At the curve they call the Devil’s Elbow still today. The carriage broke, the night went still, the ravine opened wide, And the groom was gone before she cried. Chorus Slow your wheels on Wopsy Mountain, Hear the cold wind say her name, She walks the road by Devil’s Elbow, Calling love that never came. Dressed in white through frost and snow, With a lantern burning low, She’s the White Lady of Wopsy, Still searching down that road below. Verse 3 She woke among the shattered wood and frozen broken ground, Found her love in silent snow, no help around. Some say a child was lost that night, taken by the fall, And she called for both through timber, dark, and cold. Verse 4 Hurt and fading, she wandered on through drifting winter air, Calling names the mountain kept and would not share. The cold crept in, her strength gave way, the night would not let go, And she died alone beneath the snow. Chorus Slow your wheels on Wopsy Mountain, Where the road bends hard and tight, She walks the curve of Devil’s Elbow In the pale and frozen night. Dressed in white through frost and snow, With a lantern burning low, She’s the White Lady of Wopsy, Still walking where the cold winds blow. Verse 5 They say she stands beside the road when the night is thin, Sometimes she rides, sometimes she’s gone again. Check your mirror, she’s not there, turn around and see— Then she fades where the road won’t set her free. Final Chorus Slow your wheels on Wopsy Mountain, When the night is dark and still, For love once lost to winter’s grip Still walks that frozen hill. If you see a light ahead of you, Don’t swear you’re all alone, That’s the White Lady of Wopsy Trying to find her way back home.
