Chords for "Mountain Woman"

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003
From: Aaron Scholz


MOUNTAIN WOMAN Chords

Intro is A E A E

A       
They lived together in a dirty old shack 
        E                      A
At the edge of the black rocky mountain 
A
And they drank mountain dew and they lived on the food 
          E                       A
That they grew at the side of the mountain 

D7                      A
She's a mountain woman, he's her mountain man 
E                            A
Lived all their lives by the valley 
D7                      A
She's a mountain woman, he's her mountain man 
E                            DA
Uneducated but they're happy 

A       
Mountain woman couldn't read nor write 
        E                         A
But she knew good from evil, she knew wrong from right 
A
When the government tried to buy her water rights 
    E             A
Her intuition was her only guide 

D7                      A
She's a mountain woman, he's her mountain man 
E                            A
Lived all their lives by the valley 
D7                      A
She's a mountain woman, he's her mountain man 
E                            DA
Uneducated but they're happy 

D                    A
Spend my life with my mountain woman 
      E                        DA
We're uneducated by we're happy 

E                       B
The civil servant used compulsory purchase 
   D                                DA
To acquire the valley for the nation 
E                                      B
They'll dig up the land, they're gonna make a dam 
            D                           DA
And build a hydroelectric power station 

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