You Gave Me A Mountain chords by Marty Robbins

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
C majorC


Verse 1:
C majorC            A minorAm
Born in the heat of the desert
  DmDm          G7G7
My mother died giving me life
C majorC               A minorAm
 Despised and disliked by my father
DmDm              G7G7
 Blamed for the loss of his wife
C majorC               A minorAm
 You know Lord I've been in a prison
DmDm               G7G7
 For something that I'd never done
   C majorC           E minorEm
It's been one hill after another
  DmDm               G7G7
And I've climbed them Lord, one by one

Chorus:
  C majorC       FF     C majorC
But this time you gave me a mountain
       FF     C majorC
A augmentedA mountain I may never climb
      FF    C majorC
It isn't a hill any longer
       FF       C majorC
You gave me a mountain this time


Verse 2:
  C majorC           A minorAm
My woman got tired of the hardships
DmDm             G7G7
Tired of the grief and the strife
C majorC           A minorAm
 Tired of working for nothing
DmDm         G7G7
 Tired of being my wife
C majorC            A minorAm
 She took my one ray of sunshine
DmDm            G7G7
She took my pride and my joy
C majorC           E minorEm
She took my reason for living
DmDm           G7G7
She took my small baby boy


Chorus:
  C majorC       FF     C majorC
But this time you gave me a mountain
       FF     C majorC
A augmentedA mountain I may never climb
      FF    C majorC
It isn't a hill any longer
       FF       C majorC
You gave me a mountain this time