Walking through the high dry grass   Pushing my way through slow   Yellow belly black snake sleeping on a red rock   Waiting for the stranger to go      Sugar train stops at the crossing   Cane cockies cursing below   Bad storm coming   Better run to the top of the mountain      Mountain in the shadow of light   Rain in the valley below   Mountain in the shadow of light   Rain in the valley below      Well, you could say you're Peter   Say you're Paul   Don't put me up on your bedroom wall   Call me king of the mountain      Blacksmith fires up the bellows   Cane cutters burning the load   Workers of the world   Run to the top of the mountain      Mountain in the shadow of light   Rain in the valley below   Mountain in the shadow of light   Rain in the valley below      Well, you could say you're Peter   Say you're Paul   Don't put me up on your bedroom wall   Call me king of the mountain      Well, I can't take the hands from my face   There are some things we can't replace, yeah      Mountain in the shadow of light   Rain in the valley below   Mountain in the shadow of light      Well, you could say you're Peter   Say you're Paul   Don't put me up on your bedroom wall   Call me king of the mountain      Well, you could say you're Peter   Say you're Paul   Don't put me up on your bedroom wall   Call me the king of the mountain      Over liquid tarmac wastelands of cactus and heat   Down cobblestone alleyways of washing day sheets   Up ghost prairie mountains of sunset and space      Down the road, a familiar place, across the wilderness   Out further than the bush, I will follow you   I will follow you, I will follow you