(Let me rest on a peaceful mountain)
Carter, this is your song
(Where the seeds for the harvest is sown)
That was your request
You're at rest now
In the hills you so often wrote about
(Where the wild birds nest in the good summer time)
And loved so well
I never dreamed, I never thought
So young you'd be called to rest
(On a mountain near my home, sweet home)
But the man who calls our number
Somehow you fit into his plans
We played the same places we played together
(Thoughts come back from my childhood)
Traveled the same roads mile after mile, after mile
Your memory is with us all the while
(Old time memories return)
I've relived your life from beginning to the end
Sometimes ten and twenty times a day
(Let me rest on a peaceful mountain)
How two little barefoot boys would run, roam, and play
I recall our first radio show, our first record
(In the hills near my home, sweet home)
Always side by side, me and you
How we were accepted throughout America
And many foreign lands too
Carter, if you can hear me, rest in peace
(Thoughts come back from my childhood)
Someday this earth, I'll no longer roam
And we'll be together once again
(Old time memories return)
Side by side, in the hills of home
Let me rest on a peaceful mountain
In the hills near my home, sweet home
