Bob Dylan - 'Cross the Green Mountain - from 'Gods and Generals' OST Lyrics

Lyrics 'Cross the Green Mountain - from 'Gods and Generals' OST - Bob Dylan



I crossed the green mountain
I slept by the stream
Heaven blazing in my head
I dreamt a monstrous dream
Something came up
Out of the sea
Swept through the land of
The rich and the free
I look into the eyes
Of my merciful friend
And then I ask myself
Is this the end?
Memories linger
Sad yet sweet
And I think of the souls
In heaven who will meet
Alters are burning
The flames far and wide
The foe has crossed over
From the other side
They tip their caps
From the top of the hill
You can feel them come
More brave blood do spill
Along the dim
Atlantic line
The ravaged land
Lasts for miles behind
The lights coming forward
And the streets are broad
All must yield
To the avenging God
The world is old
The world is grey
Lessons of life
Can't be learned in a day
I watch and I wait
And I listen while I stand
To the music that comes
From a far better land
Close the eyes of our captain
Peace may he know
His long night is done
The great leader is laid low
He was ready to fall
He was quick to defend
Killed outright he was
By his own men
It's the last day's last hour
Of the last happy year
I feel that the unknown world is so near
Pride will vanish
And glory will rot
But virtue lives
And cannot be forgot
The bells
Of evening have rung
There's blasphemy on every tongue
Let them say that I walked
In fair nature's light
And that I was loyal
To truth and to right
Serve God and be cheerful
Look upward beyond
Beyond the darkness that masks
The surprises of dawn
In the deep green grasses
And the blood stained woods
They never dreamed of surrendering
They fell where they stood
Stars fell over Alabama
I saw each star
You're walking in dreams
Whoever you are
Chilled are the skies
Keen is the frost
The ground's froze hard
And the morning is lost
A letter to mother
Came today
Gunshot wound to the breast
Is what it did say
But he'll be better soon
He's in a hospital bed
But he'll never be better
He's already dead
I'm ten miles outside the city
And I'm lifted away
In an ancient light
That is not of day
They were calm, they were blunt
We knew them all too well
We loved each other more than
We ever dared to tell



Writer(s): Bob Dylan


Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 (Deluxe Edition)

1 32-20 Blues (Unreleased, "World Gone Wrong")
2 High Water (For Charley Patton) [Live, 2003]
3 Most of the Time - Alternate Version from 'Oh Mercy' sessions
4 Someday Baby (Alternate Version, "Modern Times")
5 Red River Shore (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
6 Tell Ol' Bill (Alternate Version) [From the "North Country" Soundtrack]
7 Born In Time (Unreleased, "Oh Mercy")
8 Can't Wait (Alternate Version, "Time Out of Mind")
9 Everything Is Broken - Alternate Version from 'Oh Mercy' sessions
10 Dreamin' of You - Outtake from 'Time Out Of Mind' sessions
11 Huck's Tune (From Lucky You Soundtrack)
12 Marchin' to the City (Unreleased, "Time Out of Mind")
13 Series of Dreams - Outtake from 'Oh Mercy' sessions
14 God Knows (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
15 Can't Escape from You (Unreleased, December 2005)
16 Dignity - Outtake from 'Oh Mercy' sessions
17 Ring Them Bells (Live At The Supper Club, 1993)
18 Ain't Talkin' (Alternate Version, "Modern Times")
19 'Cross the Green Mountain - from 'Gods and Generals' OST
20 Duncan and Brady (Unreleased, 1992)
21 Cold Irons Bound (Live, 2004)
22 Mississippi (Unreleased Version #3, "Time Out of Mind")
23 Most of the Time (Alternate Version #2, "Oh Mercy")
24 Ring Them Bells (Alternate Version, "Oh Mercy")
25 Things Have Changed (Live, 2000)
26 Red River Shore (Unreleased Version #2, "Time Out of Mind")
27 Born In Time (Unreleased Version #2, "Oh Mercy")
28 Tryin' to Get to Heaven (Live, 2000)
29 Marchin' to the City (Unreleased Version #2, "Time Out of Mind")
30 Can't Wait (Alternate Version #2, "Time Out of Mind")
31 Mary and the Soldier (Unreleased, "World Gone Wrong")




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