Fire On The Mountain
George McCorkle/Marshall Tucker Band

EmEm Piano Chord 
                          CC Piano Chord 

Took my fam'ly away from my Carolina home
EmEm Piano Chord 
                            CC Piano Chord 

Had dreams about the West and started to roam
EmEm Piano Chord 
                   CC Piano Chord 

Six long months on a dust covered trail
EmEm Piano Chord 
                               CC Piano Chord 

They say heaven's at the end but so far it's been hell

chorus
CC Piano Chord 
           GG Piano Chord 
                     DD Piano Chord 

And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
AmAm Piano Chord 
                          CC Piano Chord 
              EmEm Piano Chord 

gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there

We were diggin' and siftin' from five to five
sellin' everything we found just to stay alive
gold flowed free like the whiskey in the bars
sinnin' was the big thing, lord and Satan was his star

chorus

Dance hall girls were the evenin' treat
Empty cartridges and blood lined the gutters of the street
Men were shot down for the sake of fun
Or just to hear the noise of their forty four guns

chorus

Now my widow she weeps by my grave
Tears flow free for her man she couldn't save
Shot down in cold blood by a gun that carried fame
All for a useless and no good worthless claim

chorus (2x)  (end on G instead of Em)

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"If we do not change direction, we will end up where we are
headed."   Lao Tsu

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