Carry Me Across The Mountain Dan Tyminski transcribed by Logan Gibbons G F G F 1. Every day is a gamble, if you really gonna make it through 2. Daddy warned against it, said "You may not make it through." 3. G F C G 1. When you live on the side of a mountain, and the babies all need food 2. Momma wrapped me in her arms, crying "What else can I do?" 3. G F G F 1. As the youngest one among us, I got sick and could not eat 2. There's a place across the mountain top, across the mountain side 3. Now I stand upon the mountain top before my mother's grave G F C G 1. Daddy prayed to accept his fate, but Momma would not heed 2. They say there is a doctor there who might save our baby's life 3. And every year I visit here to thank her for that dayC G F Carry me across the mountain, before it is too late C G D G Heal my broken body, Death not be my fate C G F Carry me across the mountain, don't give up on me C G D G I am but a helpless child whose life depends on thee