They lived together in a dirty old shack   At the edge of the black rocky mountain   And they drank mountain dew and they lived on the food   That they grew at the side of the mountain      She's a mountain woman, he's her mountain man   They lived all their lives by the valley   She's a mountain woman, he's her mountain man   Uneducated but they're happy      Mountain woman couldn't read nor write   But she knew good from evil, she knew wrong from right   When the government tried to buy her water rights   Her intuition was her only guide      She's a mountain woman, he's her mountain man   Lived all their lives by the valley   She's a mountain woman, he's her mountain man   Uneducated but they're happy   Spend my life with my mountain woman   We're uneducated by we're happy      The civil servant used compulsory purchase   To acquire the valley for the nation   They'll dig up the land, they're gonna make a dam   And build a hydroelectric power station      And now she lives on the thirty third floor   Of a man made concrete mountain   She got an elevator and refrigerator   And an automobile to run around in      Fast talkin' lawyers from the government   Went and beat proud mountain woman down   Hey mountain woman, take your mountain man   They took your land and flood your valley      Spend my life with my mountain woman   They're uneducated by they're happy