DESCRIPTION:
"Brushy Mountain" https://www.facebook.com/graytunes
iTunes Emusic Napster GreatIndieMusic Verizon Amazon MP3 Last.fm MySpace Music Simfy Apple iTunes Zune Nokia Tradebit Rhapsody Rumblefish MediaNet
Brushy Mountain on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/brushy-mountain-state-prison/id634887457

If you liked this Vid then you may also enjoy
"Dig The Devil's Blood" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DzUd4aq5sI

I got a home over this mountain
I'll be here 20 years to life
now Brushy Mountian has my body
but tonight my soul it will fly

I had a girl in east Kentucky
she had a man across the Tennessee line
I followed them down to the Tennessee river
with a shotgun and the devil by my side

there was a full moon risin through the cold black trees
there was something ragin deep inside of me
left their bodies lay there by that dark river
and for a moment my soul it was free

I got a home over this mountain
I'll be here 20 years to life now Brushy Mountain has my body
but tonight my soul it will fly

black bird flyin by the light of the moon
take my sorrow away with you
fly me over these misty mountains
for my life here on earth will soon be through

mother loved Jesus with all the love inside
she said oh my son seek your soul to find
salvation in Jesus will see you safely
from out of the darkness and into
the everlasting light

I got a home over this mountain
I'll be here 20 years to life
now Brushy Mountian has my body
but tonight my soul it will fly

"Brushy Mountain" Prison first opened in 1890. Considered the Alcatraz of the South. It's not an island, but it's hidden deep in the hills of East Tennessee. Brushy has housed Tennessee's most dangerous prisoners for over 100 years.

The penitentiary, which is in the shape of a cross and resembles a Victorian castle, was built as a result of the famous Coal Creek War. The war began when coal companies replaced free coal miners with convicts, who were leased from the state. During the struggle miners burned the stockades housing the prisoners and set many free.

Brushy Mountain made national headlines in 1977 when its most famous inmate went on the lam. James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., climbed over a wall with five other inmates. The other inmates were caught almost immediately. No successful escape ever occurred at the prison, James Earl Ray's attempt in 1977 was short lived as he became lost in the Tennessee mountains and was recaptured after three days on the run.
Next Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DzUd4aq5sI