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