Fire on the mountain
A - G - A - G
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1. Long distance runner,
what you standing there for ?
A
G
Get up, get up, get out of the
door !
A G
You’re playing cold music on
the barroom floor,
A G
drowned
in you laughter and dead to the core.
A G
There’s a dragon with matches
that’s loose on the town,
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takes
a whole pail of water just to cool him down.
A G
Fire, fire on the mountain ! (4x)
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2. Almost ablaze, still you
don’t feel the heat,
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G
it
takes all you got just to stay on the beat.
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You say it’s a livin’, we all gotta eat,
A
G
but
you’re here alone, there’s no one to compete.
A
G
If mercy’s a business, I wish
it for you,
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more
than just ashes when your dreams come true.
A G
Fire, fire on the mountain ! (4x)
+ A - G (4x)
A
G
3. Long distance runner, what you holdin’ out for,
A
G
caught
in slow motion in a dash for the door ?
A G
The flame from your stage has
now spread to the floor,
A
G
you
gave all you had, why you wanna give more ?
A
G
The more that you give, the
more it will take,
A
G
to
the thin line beyond which you really can’t fake.
A G
Fire, fire on the mountain ! (4x) …
(orig. = capo 2nd) (The Grateful Dead)