When I was a child I made my bed up on the mountainside And when I was a young woman I'd perch and wait And I could see for miles When I'm of a mind To set my hand to the plow and earth And then I tell my heart to notice I can't recall the smell of dirt But all things learned They don't stay learned And curse the heart that won't remember Love is heavy Thick like stone and death Dies slow like coal and embers And when the devil walks Well, he walks barefoot in this house And I, I can see his tail Whipping round every corner Oh, in my memory But all things learned They don't stay learned And curse the heart that won't remember Love is heavy Thick like stone and death Dies slow like coal and embers Careful, little children What you think, what you see And careful, little children What you remember I know God is ageless Beginning and the end But he leaves me in the middle In the great December, oh