Carry Across The Mountain

G F G F Every day is a gamble, if you really gonna make it through Daddy warned against it, said "You may not make it through." G F C G When you live on the side of a mountain, and the babies all need food Momma wrapped me in her arms, crying "What else can I do?" G F G F As the youngest one among us, I got sick and could not eat There's a place across the mountain top, across the mountain side Now I stand upon the mountain top before my mother's grave G F C G Daddy prayed to accept his fate, but Momma would not heed They say there is a doctor there who might save our baby's life And every year I visit here to thank her for that day C G F Carry me across the mountain, before it is too late C G D G Heal my broken body, Death not be my fate C G F Carry me across the mountain, don't give up on me C G D G I am but a helpless child whose life depends on thee