Details of
Up Against the Big Hill Line
by Marty Falle


Lyrics Writer: Marty Falle
Music Writer: Marty Falle

Publisher: Country Cool Music Nashville
Licensing: ASCAP


Lyrics

“Up Against The Big Hill Line”
(Words and Music by Marty Falle)
Verse 1
A Kentucky Daughter with a Cherokee Soul
Mama’s Roots Run Deep, like a graphite Coal
Fierce Mountain Pride runnin’ through her veins
She’s a faith-based woman lives her life in Jesus’Name
The farm was all she had
Passed down generations from her great Granddad
Everything was going just fine
Until she got that call from the Big Hill Line
Verse 2:
They came wearin’ suits flashin greenbacks in her face
Showing up to church singin’ Amazing Grace
They were slicker than a slop jar, claiming eminent domain
Pissin’ down her back and tellin’ her that it’s rain
They brought shovel machines rigged with big steel claws
Big Hill didn’t know HERE Mama WAS the law
She drew a line in the Horse Lick Creek Water
Where Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.
Chorus:
Up against the Big Hill Line
They’d steal the nickels off a dead man’s eyes.
Now there staring at the end of Mama’s big 45
Up against the Big Hill Line
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Verse 3
I remember that day when evil forced Mama’s hand
Clouds of greed gathered over Grandaddy’s Land
Papaw watched it all from his gravestone on the hill
Such a sweet woman or girl, never thought that she would kill
At the Murder trial all the crimes they denied
Like cuttin’ tops off mountains and robbing what’s inside
And all God’s Creatures and the Trees that would die
The local jury ruled Mama was justified
Chorus/End