@houckjt: all your songs are melty - so warm. warm heart

This is a wonderful track - Great lyrics!

Wow. A great lyricist I have missed! Really nice composition and strumming to.. Love the way you deliver that voice as well, so natural and self evident! The hellfire choir brought me here, and I have a feeling I´m gonna hang around for a while :)

Really great songs. Will have to listen to them all.

beauuuuutiful joseph! the words are absolutely lovely

@sunnidayz: Much too kind! Really appreciate the favorite and you spending so much time with my music! 

It's always nice to come back to this absolute gem, Joe. So good.

Swathes of leaves on that well-worn path
In their earthen gully graves
The woods grow dim; the beasts come out
From their hidden mountain caves

His old plank shack in shadows black
In sweat and pride was built
Its veins in vines; the once straight lines
Did sag and drag and tilt

Chorus:
The grass grows high 
And in the wind it sways
And the sun beats down on that hill

On that hill they call his grave:

There’s a creek runs down, springs from the ground
Not too far, where he would drink
In the summer heat he’d soak his feet
And rest awhile and think

And he held the girl he called his wife
They tilled and grew their crop
And when the harvest finally came
She was about to pop

Chorus

There he died at a ripe old age
His son grown; his wife gone
Next to her he was buried
On that hill they both called home

His shack--no room-- an empty tomb
The trail would disappear
But the spring would flow, and it would know
At last that he was here

Chorus

On That Hill

Singer songwriter from the mountains of North Carolina

New EP "Blue Ridge Mountain Waterfalls" out now (Sept. 18th, 2025)

www.josephhouckmusic.com

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