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Our Mother The Mountain chords by Townes Van Zandt

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Intro:
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Verse 1:
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My lover comes to me with a rose on her bosom
    Chord diagramFF              Chord diagramC/EC/E        Chord diagramA minorAm                Chord diagramDmDm
The moon's dancin' purple all through her black hair
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And a lady's in waiting she'll stand 'neath my window
        Chord diagramFF             Chord diagramC/EC/E         Chord diagramA minorAm            Chord diagramDmDm
And the sun will rise soon on the false and the fair
       Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramA minorAm         Chord diagramDmDm
Sing a-too a-loor-a-lie-o

Verse 2:
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She tells me she comes from my mother the mountain
    Chord diagramFF             Chord diagramC/EC/E             Chord diagramA minorAm          Chord diagramDmDm
Her skin fits her tightly and her lips do not lie
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She silently slips from her throat a medallion
Chord diagramFF          Chord diagramC/EC/E          Chord diagramA minorAm          Chord diagramDmDm
Slowly she twirls it in front of my eyes
       Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramA minorAm         Chord diagramDmDm
Sing a-too a-loor-a-lie-o

Verse 3:
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I watch her, I love her, I long for to touch her
    Chord diagramFF           Chord diagramC/EC/E        Chord diagramA minorAm         Chord diagramDmDm
The satin she's wearin' is shimmering blue
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Outside my window her ladies are sleeping
   Chord diagramFF            Chord diagramC/EC/E          Chord diagramA minorAm         Chord diagramDmDm
My dog's a-gone hunting, the howling is through
       Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramA minorAm         Chord diagramDmDm
Sing a-too a-loor-a-lie-o

Verse 4:
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So I reach for her hand and her eyes turn to poison
        Chord diagramFF             Chord diagramC/EC/E               Chord diagramA minorAm             Chord diagramDmDm
And her hair turns to splinters and her flesh turns to brine
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She leaps 'cross the room, she stands in the window
    Chord diagramFF               Chord diagramC/EC/E             Chord diagramA minorAm        Chord diagramDmDm
And screams that my first-born will surely be blind
       Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramA minorAm         Chord diagramDmDm
Sing a-too a-loor-a-lie-o

Verse 5:
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Then she throws herself out to the black of the nightfall
      Chord diagramFF          Chord diagramC/EC/E           Chord diagramA minorAm          Chord diagramDmDm
She's parted her lips, but she makes not a sound
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I fly down the stairway and I run to the garden
   Chord diagramFF           Chord diagramC/EC/E          Chord diagramA minorAm          Chord diagramDmDm
No trace of my true love is there to be found
       Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramA minorAm         Chord diagramDmDm
Sing a-too a-loor-a-lie-o

Verse 6:
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So walk these hills lightly and watch who you're lovin'
   Chord diagramFF          Chord diagramC/EC/E         Chord diagramA minorAm              Chord diagramDmDm
By mother the mountain, I swear that it's true
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And love not a woman with hair black as midnight
      Chord diagramFF             Chord diagramC/EC/E       Chord diagramA minorAm         Chord diagramDmDm
And a dress made of satin all shimmering blue
       Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramA minorAm         Chord diagramDmDm
Sing a-too a-loor-a-lie-o

Verse 7:
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Oh my lover comes to me with a rose on her bosom
    Chord diagramFF              Chord diagramC/EC/E        Chord diagramA minorAm                Chord diagramDmDm
The moon's dancing purple all through her black hair
      Chord diagramDmDm
And a lady's in waiting, she'll stand 'neath my window
        Chord diagramFF             Chord diagramC/EC/E         Chord diagramA minorAm            Chord diagramDmDm

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