Mountain Angel Lyrics - Little Sparrow - Dolly Parton

Pretty as an angel from the day that she was born 

Skin as fair as lily's hair, as golden as the corn 

They knew that she was specia, from the moment she first cried 

She was a mountain angel certified 

She was her mama's baby, she was her daddy's pride 

Good at home, at church and school, at everything she tried 

Everybody's darlin' led a charmed and peaceful life 

The perfect mountain angel 'til he arrived 

And oh, she fell so deeply 

Ooh, she couldn't stop 

She gave herself to him, milled it completely 

He lifted her so high, he let her drop 

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She gave up everything for him that mattered in her life 

All the others that had loved her and she vowed to be his wife 

She dreamed of bearing children in an ivy-covered house 

The mountain angel's sunshine turned to clouds 

The wicked, handsome stranger left the way he came 

Broke her heart and broke her mind 

She never was the same 

They say he was the devil 

That had come to steal her soul 

She never loved another, it was told 

They say she had a baby 

Some say that it had died 

They say it's just as well 

As it had been the devil's child 

They say good conquers evil 

But here, evil won the prize 

So the mountain angel took to the wild 

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And ooh, she couldn't take it 

Years passed and she had long since lost her mind 

She waited for him as her beauty faded 

Her parents died from grief before their time 

She tried to gather pieces of her life, they wouldn't fit 

Beside the tiny grave, deep in the woods is where she'd sit 

Talking to the child, herself, to him, who knew for sure 

Possesse, they say, by Satan's insane lure 

High atop the mountain, for years they say she's seen 

Looking down upon the town where she had once been queen 

She'd sneak around the playground, watch the little children play 

They'd see the crazy lady, then run away 

They say she roamed these hills for years, wearing not a stitch 

The lovely mountain angel, now thought to be a witch 

She made those wailing mournful sounds 

That you could hear for miles 

Long after she laid down upon her baby's grave and died 

And ooh, her ghost is callin' 

She's waiting for the ones that she adored 

Through spring and summer, fall when snow is fallin' 

Her spirit roams these hills forevermore 

The mountain angel's voices ever more 

Oohh, oooo 

Oohh, oooo 

Oohh, oooo