The Mountain Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

C G Am C Dm F G

I was bornC on this mountain a long, longEm time Amago

Before they knocFked down the tiDmmber and they strFip-mined all thGe coal

When they rosCe up in the mornin’ before it was Emdaylight Am

To go doFwn in that dCark hole and comeDm back up at nigCht

I was born on this mountain, this mountain’s my home

She holds and she keeps me from worry and woe

Well they took everything she gave, she gave and now she’s gone

But I’ll die on this mountain, this mountain’s my home

I was young on this mountain, but now I am old

And I know every hollow, every cool swimmin’ hole

‘Til one night I lay down and I woke up to find

That my childhood was over; I went back down in the mine

There’s a hole in this mountain, it’s dark and it’s deep

And God only knows all the secrets that it keeps

There’s a chill in the air only miners can feel

There’s ghosts in the tunnels that the company sealed.