Lyrics:
Every time I shed tears
In the last past years
When I pass through the hills
Oh, what images return
Oh, I yearn
For the roots of the woods
That origin of all my strong and strange moods
I lost something in the hills
I lost something in the hills
I grew up in declivities,
others grow up in cities
where first love and soul takes rise
there where times in my life
when I felt mad and deprived
and only the slopes gave me hope
When I pass through the leg high grass, I shall die
under the jasmine, I shall die
in the elder tree
I need not try to prepare for a new coming day
Where is it that fills the deepness I feel?
You will say I’m not Robin the Hood
but how could I hide from top to foot
that I lost something in the hills,
I lost something in the hills
Oh, I lost something in the hills
Now I lean on my window sill
and I cry, though it’s silly
and I’m dreaming of off and away
Oh, I know further west these hills exist
marked by apple trees,
marked by a straight brook
that leads me wherever I want it to
Well I lost something in the hills
I lost something in the hills
Oh, I lost something in the hills