Cabin on the Mountain - David Ackles

Don’t you dare let the wind move into our cabin on the mountain

I just know I’ll be back

I’ll come home with the first green in May

They can’t keep me behind walls

I get out when the ground smells of planting

So don’t you dare let me down

Please stay around for my home-coming day

You were the daughter of a drummer

Moving from town to little town

Looking like a snow-flake in the summer

When I asked you to stop and settle down

We built a cabin on the mountain

We were as happy as July

When along come a drummer from Baltimore

And you left me, I thought I would die

I lived seven months in loneliness

Then come your letter: «Take me home»

When I come to fetch you from the tenement

I could see that man beat you to the bone

Then from the bedroom stepped the drummer man

Says to me «Leave go of my wife»

Lord, I wish I knew just what came over me

Wish I’d never seen a knife

Don’t you dare let the wind move into our cabin on the mountain

I just know I’ll be back

I’ll come home with the first green in May

They can’t keep me behind walls

I get out when the ground smells of planting

So don’t you dare let me down

Please stay around for my home-coming day