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