The mountain    (video)

 

    C - Am    - C - Dm - F - C

 

               C                                                    Am

1. I was born on this mountain a long time ago,

                           C                       Dm                F                    Am

    before they knocked down the timber and strip-mined the coal.

                      C                                                Am

    When you rose in the mornin' before it was light,

               C                Dm                            F              Am       - G

    to go down in that dark hole and come back up at night.

 

           C                                                               Am

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

                C                   Dm                     F              G

and she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

                   C                                                                Am

Well, they took everything that she gave, now they're gone,

           C                Dm                    F                   C

but I'll die on this mountain, this mountain's my home.

 

                 C                                                       Am

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

                 C              Dm                 F                           - Am

    and I knew every holler, every cool swimmin' hole.

            C                                                      Am

    Till one night I lay down and woke up to find

                   C                   Dm                F                Am     - G

    that my childhood was over, I went down in the mine.

 

+  CHORUS

 

+  C - Am    - C - Dm - F - G     

 

    C - Am    - C - Dm - F - C

 

                      C                                                               Am

3. There's a hole in this mountain and it's dark and it's deep,

              C            Dm                F            Am

    and God only knows all the secrets it keeps.

                        C                                          Am

    There's a chill in the air only miners can feel,

                             C              Dm                      F            Am        - G

    and there're ghosts in the tunnels that the company sealed.

 

 

 

 

 

           C                                                               Am

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

                C                   Dm                     F              G

and she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

                   C                                                                Am

Well, they took everything that she gave, now they're gone,

           C                Dm                    F                   C

but I'll die on this mountain, this mountain's my home.

 

+  C - Dm - F - C

 

(orig. = capo 2nd)    (Steve Earle)