Keeper Of The Mountain chords by The Flatlanders

(Track B9 from the album "One road more" by the Flatlanders, released in 1980)


Intro
(The intro is 2 bars: the B7 chord is played for only one beat at the end of bar 1.)
(Bar 2 is a 1 strum cut. Variations of this pattern are repeated throughout the song.)

E       B7  E


Verse 1
            E   A            E     C#m
I remember you?     a-telling me?
               G#m     A                   B         B
Don't clutch a rose?,     don't mourn the sunset?.
          E         A              E
And I suppose if I hear? the river moaning?
      A                E
It's just the way I'm feeling,?
    A               E          A            E       E
The river's not complaining oh no, oh no no no?

Verse 2
                   E     A
And the very next day
           E              C#m
we woke before the dawn?.
                 G#m      A
We found our way?
                B           B
By the rambling river?.
               E        A
And we had no dream?
         E
We just lived one?
A                    E
I the keeper of the mountain?
 A               E          A              E    (A)  E
you the morning flower, uh-huh, uh-huh uh-huh?


Chorus
             F#m       B7
There was no reason to go?
      E                 A
And I never claimed to know?
     E          A
And these (and these)?
             E                      A
these ain't teardrops (these ain't teardrops)?
                E                A
That ain't the river (ain't the river)?
        E
Just a moaning (just a moaning)?
    A               E          A            E    (A)  E
The river's not complaining oh no, oh no oh no.?


Verse 3
                  E            A
When I spoke big words,?
                   E              C#m
you just let them fly away,?
           G#m     A                 B     B
blue paper birds?      on a summer's day?.
               E
And I took you by the hand,?
 A                   E
Knew that you would understand,?
A                    E
I the keeper of the mountain,?
 A                E         A              E       E
You the mornin' flower, uh-huh, uh-huh uh-huh.?


Chorus
             F#m       B7
There was no reason to go?
      E                 A
And I never claimed to know?
     E          A
And these (and these)?
             E                      A
these ain't teardrops (these ain't teardrops)?
                E                A
That ain't the river (ain't the river)?
        E
Just a moaning (it's a moaning)?
    A               E          A            E     (A) E
The river's not complaining oh no, oh no oh no.?