On a Hill Lone and Gray (There's A Hill Lone and Grey) is a southern gospel song the Carters recorded twice; the first time in 1932 for Victor unissued and the second for Bluebird in 1934. The song was written by Beverly Francis Caradine and appears in Truths and Triumphs for Revivals in 1894.

Car­ra­dine pas­tored a large Meth­od­ist con­gre­ga­tion in St. Lou­is, Mis­sou­ri. In 1893, he be­came a full time evang­el­ist, and held ser­vic­es in ma­ny parts of the Unit­ed States. He was forced to re­tire af­ter be­ing in­jured in an ac­ci­dent in Se­at­tle, Wash­ing­ton, in 1918. His works inc­lude:

Best of All, with William Kirkpatrick & C. J. Fowler Church Entertainments: Twenty Objections
Golden Sheaves
Heart Talks
A Journey to Palestine
Pastoral Sketches
Revival Incidents

The Carters 1932 recording for Victor was probably unissued because Peer could not obtain an original copyright for the song. Below the Carters lyrics I've included the original lyrics for comparison.

ON A HILL LONE AND GREY-Carter family

On a hill lone and gray
In a land far away
In a country beyond the blue sea
Where beneath that far sky
Went a man for to die
For the world and for you and for me.

CHORUS: Oh it bows down my heart
And the tear drops do start
When in memory that gray hill I see
It was there on its side
Jesus suffered yes he died
To redeem a poor sinner like me

Hark, I hear the dull blow
Of the hammer swung low
They are nailing my lord to the tree
With the cross he upraised
While the multitude gazed
He ascended that hill lone and gray.

CHORUS:

Shout aloud then my soul
Let the glad tidings roll
From the land to the end of the sea
Where beneath that far sky
Went a man for to die
For the world and for you and for me

THERE'S A HILL LONE AND GREY- Words:CARRADINE Music:John B. Bry­ant

There's a hill lone and grey, in a land far away,
In a country beyond the blue sea,
Where beneath that fair sky went a Man forth to die
For the world and for you and for me.

Refrain

Oh, it bows down my heart
And the teardrops will start,
When in mem'ry that grey hill I see.
For 'twas there on its side, Jesus suffered and died
To redeem a poor sinner like me.

Behold! faint on the road, 'neath a world's heavy load,
Comes a thorn crownèd Man on the way,
With a cross He is bowed, but still on through the crowd
He's ascending that hill lone and grey.

Refrain

Hark! I hear the dull blow of the hammer swung low;
They are nailing my Lord to the tree,
And the cross they upraised while the multitude gaze
On the blest Lamb of dark Calvary.

Refrain

How they mock Him in death, to His last lab'ring breath,
While His friends sadly weep o'er the way;
But though lonely and faint, still no word of complaint
Fell from Him on the hill lone and grey.

Refrain

Then the darkness came down and the rocks rent around,
And a cry pierced the grief laden air;
'Twas the voice of our King Who received death's dark sting,
All to save us from endless despair.

Refrain

Let the sun hide its face, let the earth reel apace,
Over men who their Savior have slain;
But behold from the sod, comes the blest Lamb of God,
Who was slain and is risen again.

Refrain