The Mountain chords by Levon Helm

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
 G                    Em
I was born on this mountain a long long time ago
G               Am       C      D
Before they knocked down the timber and strip-mined all the coal
 G                     Em
When you rose up in the mornin' before it was daylight
 G         Am         C     G
To go down in that dark hole and come back up at night

Verse 2:
G                         Em
I was born on this mountain, this mountain's my home
 G        Am           C      D
She holds me and she keeps me from the worry and the woe
 G                            Em
Well they took everything she gave -she gave it now she's gone
 G          Am        C      G
But I'll die on this mountain, this mountain's my home

Verse 3:
G                      Em
I was young on this mountain but now I am old
 G        Am       C      D
And I know every holler, every cool swimmin' hole
G                    Em
'Til a one night I lay down and woke up to find
 G          Am      C        G
That my childhood was over and I went down in the mine

Verse 4:
 G                           Em
There's a hole in this mountain and it's dark and it's deep
 G      Am      C       D
And God only knows all the secrets that it keeps
 G                     Em
There's a chill in the air only miners can feel
G         Am        C    G
there's ghosts in the tunnels that the company sealed