This is obviously an incredibly late response, but thought it would be good to post the lyrics as shared in a recent email directly from Martha Scanlan, the Reeltime Travelers singer who recorded this on the Cold Mountain soundtrack. I haven't yet found a fully-correct version of the lyrics online, and they aren't printed in the CD liner notes, so high-time they get posted (hopefully without copyright infringement). This song is too special not to share:


Paths are there for us to follow, this is gospel I believe
Angels are around us flying, truth and mercy to receive

Pictures of uncommon nature, painted by a master's hand
draw us ever on life's journey, rendered thus to understand

Like a songbird that has fallen, only to regain the sky
from this frozen shadow valley may my spirit fly

Love is from no distance calling, faithful as the rising sun
warms the bitter stone of heartache, til the least of it is gone

Clouds of fear and misconception wax and wane as if the moon
So is innocence forsaken, til the will of God be known

Like a songbird that has fallen, only to regain the sky
from this frozen shadow valley may my spirit fly


*It sounds as though she sang "warms the bitter ~heart and~ heartache" on the Cold Mountain film, but perhaps "stone of" was the original intent of the song's authors, Bobby Neuwirth and T-Bone Burnett. And if not, it's at least another great option.

Thank you, Martha!