Johnny Cash - She Came from the Mountains: chords

Chorus:
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She came from the mountains Rocky Mountains eagle-high
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She's from where the mountains lean up to the sky
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Now she's back among the Rockies where mountain thunders cry
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Now the wind from off the mountains wails a sad goodbye

D                   Em
Once in Colorado Springs at the foot of old Pike's Peak
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I met a Rocky Mountain girl to my soul her heart did speak
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We went to tell her parents and an old grandmother said
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If you'll leave these mountains girl you'll wish that you were dead

The next day I took her with me to my far-off Iowa home
Way out on the flatlands where the mountain winds don't moan
Each footstep we took was happy or at least it should've been
But I would find her listening for that same lone mountain wind

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Months passed as fast as antelopes until one fatal dismal dawn
I waked to see morning sun shine down on where she was gone
I'd known that lately she'd been sad women sometimes get that way
I hadn't guessed how much was wrong until that fatal day

She had left the weeping letter homesick with mountain names
She was somewhere in the Rockies and I knew I'd been to blame
So now in Colorado Springs I wait near old Pike's Peak
Where once I met a mountain girl that mountain girl I seek

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