Winds of Change Newsletter, September 2005     See sidebar for table of contents

A Song for the Pain of Our West Virginia Mountains

Revelations 11:18
Music and lyrics A by Tonya Adkins

I used to go up on the mountainside
To ease my worried mind
But now that mountaintop is gone
It fell to that big dragline

Chorus:
Then I read my Good book in Revelations
In the eleventh chapter and the eighteenth verse
What will they say on the judgment morning
When God destroys those who’ve destroyed this earth

I’ve seen the rivers run black as coal
I’ve seen the timber stripped away
I’m told the love of money is the root of all evil
I see that more clearly every day

Chorus

Now if you come to West Virginia
There’s one thing I ask before you go
If you see three crosses on the mountainside
Remember those crucified below

Revelations 11:18  “The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”