Mountain Woman Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][D][G]
[D][G]

[Verse 1]
They [G]lived
together in a dirty old shack
At the edge of [D]the black rocky [G]mountain
And they drank mountain dew
and they lived on the food
That they grew [D]at the side
of the moun[G]tain

[Verse 2]
[C]She's a mountain woman,
[G]he's her mountain man
[D]They lived all their lives by the[G] valley
[C]She's a mountain woman,
[G]he's her mountain man
[D]Uneducated but [C]they're happy
[G]

[Interlude 1]
[D]
[G][D]
[G]

[Verse 3]
[G]Mountain woman couldn't read nor write
But she [D]knew good from evil,
she knew [G]wrong from right
When the government tried
to buy her water rights
Her [D]intuition was [G]her only guide

[Verse 4]
[C]She's a mountain woman,
[G]he's her mountain man
[D]Lived all their lives by the[G] valley
[C]She's a mountain woman,
[G]he's her mountain man
[D]Uneducated but [C]they're happy[G]
[C]Spend my life [G]with my
mountain woman
We're [D]uneducated by we're
[C]happy

[Interlude 2]
[G][D][G]
[D][G]

[Verse 5]
[D]The civil servant used
com[A]pulsory purchase
To ac[C]quire the valley for
the [G]nation
They'll [D]dig up the land,
they're gonna [A]make a dam
And build [C]a hydroelectric power stat[G]ion

[Verse 6]
And [G]now she lives on the thirty third floor
Of [D]a man made concrete [G]mountain
She got an elevator and refrigerator
And an [D]automobile to run [G]around in

[Verse 7]
[C]Fast talkin' law[G]yers
from the government
[D]Went and beat proud
[G]mountain woman down
[C]Hey mountain woman,
[G]take your mountain man
[D]They took your land and flood [C]your valley[G]
[C]Spend

[Verse 8]
my life with [G]my
mountain woman
They're [D]uneducated by they're happy

[Outro 1]
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