Chords with lyrics
J.P. Cormier - Kelly's Mountain
CAPO: 3rd Fret
INTRO:
G+G
CHORUS:
A minorAm
E minorEm
If I could only fly___
C majorC
G+G
If I could build a bridge
D MajorD
I'd carry you my love
E minorEm
G+G
Across this barren ridge
A minorAm
E minorEm
If there were just some way___
C majorC
G+G
I'd pull a carriage through the snow
C majorC
G+G
D MajorD
E minorEm
Take ye over Kelly's Mountain to the village there below
C majorC
D MajorD
G+G
And no one would ever know
E minorEm
G+G
Oh, the snow was high again in the year of 1910
C majorC
G+G
D MajorD
When I rode over Kelly's top from Lake Bras d'Or
E minorEm
G+G
O'er the mountain I had come, without rapier, without gun
C majorC
G+G
D MajorD
C majorC
G+G
To fetch my father's order from the Saint Anne's Store
E minorEm
G+G
As I purchased my supplies, a pretty maiden caught my eye
C majorC
G+G
D MajorD
Her beauty shone upon me like the sun
E minorEm
G+G
As my heart melted away, I heard somebody say
C majorC
G+G
D MajorD
C majorC
G+G
"That is the daughter fair of Hugh McGow-how-wan"
INTERLUDE:
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
G+G
E minorEm
G+G
Well, she knew she'd caught my eye and she smiled as she walked by
C majorC
G+G
D MajorD
Saying "Meet me when the stars come out tonight.
E minorEm
G+G
On the highroad I will wait, by old Don Campbell's gate
C majorC
G+G
D MajorD
C majorC
G+G
And we'll sing a song of love there in the moonlight"
CHORUS:
A minorAm
E minorEm
If I could only fly___
C majorC
G+G
If I could build a bridge
D MajorD
I'd carry you my love
E minorEm
G+G
Across this barren ridge
A minorAm
E minorEm
If there were just some way___
C majorC
G+G
I'd pull a carriage through the snow
C majorC
G+G
D MajorD
E minorEm
Take ye over Kelly's Mountain to the village there below
C majorC
D MajorD
G+G
And no one would ever know
E minorEm
G+G
I knew McGowan was a man with a very heavy hand
C majorC
G+G
D MajorD
And his daughter was the meaning to his life
E minorEm
G+G
All her suitors, they had come to the wrong end of his gun
C majorC
G+G
D MajorD
C majorC
G+G
As long as he was living, she'd be no man's wife
INTERLUDE:
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
G+G
E minorEm
G+G
But I met her 'neath the stars and I took her in my arms
C majorC
G+G
D MajorD
And she said, "Please take me with you when you go.
E minorEm
G+G
Beneath my father's cruel hand, no longer I can stand
C majorC
G+G
D MajorD
C majorC
G+G
I'll leave with you and he will never know-ho-ho"
CHORUS:
A minorAm
E minorEm
If I could only fly___
C majorC
G+G
If I could build a bridge
D MajorD
I'd carry you my love
E minorEm
G+G
Across this barren ridge
A minorAm
E minorEm
If there were just some way___
C majorC
G+G
I'd pull a carriage through the snow
C majorC
G+G
D MajorD
E minorEm
Take ye over Kelly's Mountain to the village there below
C majorC
D MajorD
G+G
And no one would ever know
INSTRUMENTAL:
** Key Change - 2 Semitones Up **
F# minorF#m
A augmentedA
We were halfway up the hill when a gunshot broke the still
D MajorD
A augmentedA
E MajorE
And I felt the pain burn deep within my side
F# minorF#m
A augmentedA
She said, "My God, we have to run, my father has a gun
D MajorD
A augmentedA
E MajorE
D MajorD
A augmentedA
And he'll never let you take me as your bri-i-ide!"
F# minorF#m
A augmentedA
In my pain I slipped and fell and it wasn't hard to tell
D MajorD
A augmentedA
E MajorE
That McGowan cursed my soul not far behind
F# minorF#m
A augmentedA
I pulled her sovereign to my breast, saying "Here I've come to rest,
D MajorD
A augmentedA
E MajorE
D MajorD
A augmentedA
But there's something that I wish before I'm dy-i-ing
CHORUS:
B minorBm
F# minorF#m
"If you could only fly___
D MajorD
A augmentedA
If you could build a bridge
E MajorE
You carry me, my love
F# minorF#m
A augmentedA
Across this barren ridge
B minorBm
F# minorF#m
Please tell my father why___
D MajorD
A augmentedA
You had to bury me in the snow
D MajorD
A augmentedA
E MajorE
F# minorF#m
Near the top of Kelly's Mountain, where the winds forever blow
D MajorD
E MajorE
A augmentedA
Or no one will ever know
D MajorD
A augmentedA
E MajorE
F# minorF#m
Near the top of Kelly's Mountain, where the winds forever blow___
N.C.
D MajorD
E MajorE
A augmentedA
F# minorF#m
D MajorD
A augmentedA