Stagger Mountain Tragedy chords by Kris Kristofferson

Chords with lyrics

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I was born on Stagger Mountain in the sunshine and the snow
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And leaving was the first mistake I made
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But I hungered for the shadows in the valley down below
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And a girl that danced the tune the devil played

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Her smile was like the blinding light of sunshine on the snow
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And the flashing of her hair was black as sin.
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And her body set the smokes of hell a-boiling in my skull
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When the fiddle of the devil made her spin.

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Born in sunshine sunshine high on the mountain,
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Where the air  is pure and cold;
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But there's darkness  in the shadows
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In the canyons of my soul.

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The lantern cast her shadow like a demon on the wall
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And the naked sweat was gleaming on her skin;
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Then the room was spinning closer as her clothes began to fall
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And the eagle started screaming in my brain

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Then I saw the laughing dagger and I heard the devil scream
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And her bleeding heart was beating in my hand.
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Then the darkness flew away and I was standing by a tree
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With a hanging rope a-danglin' from a limb.

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Born in sunshine sunshine high on the mountain,
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Where the air  is pure and cold;
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But there's darkness  in the shadows
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In the canyons of my soul.

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