You Gave Me a Mountain - Don McLean

Born in the heat of the desert

My mother died giving me life

Despised and disliked from my father

Blamed for the loss of his wife.

You know Lord, I’ve been in a prison

For something that I never done

It’s been one hill after another

And I’ve climbed them lord one by one.

But 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.

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

A mountain I may never climb

It isn’t a hill any longer

You gave me a mountain this time