Brushy Mountain: A murder ballad prison song

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I got a home over this mountain
I'll be here 20 years to life
now Brushy Mountian has my body
but tonight my soul it will fly
I had a girl in east Kentucky
she had a man across the Tennessee line
I followed them down to the Tennessee river
with a shotgun and the devil by my side
there was a full moon risin through the cold black trees
there was something ragin deep inside of me
left their bodies lay there by that dark river
and for a moment my soul it was free
I got a home over this mountain
I'll be here 20 years to life now Brushy Mountain has my body
but tonight my soul it will fly
black bird flyin by the light of the moon
take my sorrow away with you
fly me over these misty mountains
for my life here on earth will soon be through
mother loved Jesus with all the love inside
she said oh my son seek your soul to find
salvation in Jesus will see you safely
from out of the darkness and into
the everlasting light
I got a home over this mountain
I'll be here 20 years to life
now Brushy Mountian has my body
but tonight my soul it will fly
"Brushy Mountain" Prison first opened in 1890. Considered the Alcatraz of the South. It's not an island, but it's hidden deep in the hills of East Tennessee. Brushy has housed Tennessee's most dangerous prisoners for over 100 years.
The penitentiary, which is in the shape of a cross and resembles a Victorian castle, was built as a result of the famous Coal Creek War. The war began when coal companies replaced free coal miners with convicts, who were leased from the state. During the struggle miners burned the stockades housing the prisoners and set many free.
Brushy Mountain made national headlines in 1977 when its most famous inmate went on the lam. James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., climbed over a wall with five other inmates. The other inmates were caught almost immediately. No successful escape ever occurred at the prison, James Earl Ray's attempt in 1977 was short lived as he became lost in the Tennessee mountains and was recaptured after three days on the run.
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[@Tennessee1974]

I'm from Petros my father and mother retired from Brushy. I've been in Brushy my father took me up there several times. I grew up in the house that was next to wardens house on the hill. Inmates taught me to play baseball and football. Not bragging just seems surreal listening to this song.

[@reprobaterenegade2594]

Listened to this when I was stressed and it was like therapy to me, thanks for writing such a good song

[@terrycopeland1046]

Wow loved this.

[@hakimdaoudi8488]

Great song

[@MEDOM3167]

Great song...loved it.Take care,Mart.

[@elijahlowe3811]

I live just over the mountain form Brushy in Scott county

[@sweetgary5569]

Love this song

[@melindashannon1015]

A branch of my Morgan County Shannon family lived up there before the prison was built.

[@pauldavis7962]

Beautiful ! Thanks for posting.

[@deathjohnson8283]

This song is so catchy

[@nanomicroart]

Beautifully Done, Bravo!!

[@stoicape4370]

I was in jail here in Knoxville a few years ago with a guy who had been to BM pen.

[@searcy95]

Nice !

[@kristineclevinger]

I would love to have the chords to this song! :-)

[@pauldavis7962]

Capo 2, D, A, G

[@pauldavis7962]

Actually , I think A7 works better

[@smcgregor72]

anyone have the chords for ths

[@graygallery]

D tuning kpoed up.

[@richiehembree9618]

D and sounds like up down down down up

[@pauldavis7962]

Capo 2 , D, A, G

[@pauldavis7962]

Actually, I think A7 works better.