Stagger Mountain Tragedy

C

[VERSE 1]

       C                F         
I was born on Stagger Mountain in 
     C                 F
the sunshine and the snow
      C              Bb       F  
And leaving was the first mistake
    G
 I made
       C                 G        
But I hungered for the shadows in 
     F             C
the valley down below
       C                    Bb    
And a girl that danced the tune 
          C
the devil played
      C                  F    
Her smile was like the blinding 
            C                F
light of sunshine on the snow
          C              Bb    
And the flashing of her hair was 
    F       G
black as sin.
         C             G          
And her body set the smokes of 
     F              C
hell a-boiling in my skull
          C             Bb        
When the fiddle of the devil made 
      C
her spin.

[CHORUS]

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         F                         
Born in sunshine [sunshine] high on
      C
 the mountain,
          G   F              C
Where the air   is pure and cold;
             G        F      
But there's darkness    in the 
    C
shadows
        Bb            C
In the canyons of my soul.

[INTERLUDE]

C

[VERSE 2]

     C                 F          
The lantern cast her shadow like a
  C            F
 demon on the wall
         C                Bb     
And the naked sweat was gleaming 
F        G
on her skin;
           C                 G    
Then the room was spinning closer 
         F               C
as her clothes began to fall
         C              Bb        
And the eagle started screaming in
      C
 my brain
        C                 F       
Then I saw the laughing dagger and
     C                F
 I heard the devil scream
           C                Bb     
And her bleeding heart was beating 
F      G
in my hand.
          C              G        
Then the darkness flew away and I 
      F             C
was standing by a tree
         C             Bb         
With a hanging rope a-danglin' 
     C
from a limb.

[CHORUS]

         F                         
Born in sunshine [sunshine] high on
      C
 the mountain,
          G   F              C
Where the air   is pure and cold;
             G        F      
But there's darkness    in the 
    C
shadows
        Bb            C
In the canyons of my soul.