Mountain Angel chords by Dolly Parton

• Capo on 2nd

capo 2

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Pretty as an angel from the day that she was born

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Skin as fair as Lily's hair, as golden as the corn

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They knew that she was special from the moment she first cried

 G      C     D    G
She was a mountain angel certified

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She was her momma's baby, she was her daddy's pride

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Good at home, at church and school, at everything she tried

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Everybody's darlin' led a charmed and peaceful life

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The perfect mountain angel 'til he arrived


 G    C    G
And ohh, she fell so deeply

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Ooooh, she couldn't stop

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She gave herself to him, milled it completely

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He lifted her so high he let her drop


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She gave up everything for him that mattered in her life

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All the others that had loved her and she vowed to be his wife

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She dreamed of bearing children in an ivy-covered house

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The mountain angel's sunshine turned to clouds

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The wicked handsome stranger left the way he came

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Broke her heart and broke her mind

 G          D
She never was the same

 Em           C
They say he was the devil

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That had come to steal her soul

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She never loved another it was told

 G          C
They say she had a baby

 G           C
Some say that it had died

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They it's just as well

      G         D
As it had been the devil's child

 G            C
They say good conquers evil

 G            C
But here, evil won the prize

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So the mountain angel took to the wild


 G    C         G
And ooh, she couldn't take it

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Years passed and she had long since lost her mind

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She waited for him as her beauty faded

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Her parents died from grief before their time


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She tried to gather pieces of her life, they wouldn't fit

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Beside the tiny grave deep in the woods is where she'd sit

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Talking to the child, herself, to him, who knew for sure

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Possessed they say by satan's insane lure


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High a'top the mountain, for years they say she's seen

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Looking down upon the town where she had once been queen

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She'd sneak around the playground, watch the little children play

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They'd see the crazy lady then run away

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They say she roamed these hills for years, wearing not a stitch

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The lovely mountain angel now thought to be a witch

 G            C
She made those wailing mournful sounds

   G        C
That you could hear for miles

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Long after she laid down upon her baby's grave and died


 G    C         G
And ooh, her ghost is callin'

 G            C        G
She's waiting for the ones that she adored

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Through spring and summer, fall when snow is fallin'

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Her spirit roams these hills forever more

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The mountain angel's voices ever more