Johnny Cash – She Came From The Mountains (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
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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

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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 let 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

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The next day I took her with me to my far-off Iowa home

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Way out on the flatlands where the mountain winds don't moan

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Each footstep we took was happy or at least it shoudn't been

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But I would find her listening for that same lone mountain wind
[Chorus]
D                 Em              A               D
She came from the mountains Rocky Mountains eagle-high

                     Em              A        D
She's from where the mountains lean up to the sky

                         Em            A                 D
Now she's back among the Rockies where mountain thunders cry

                          Em        A               D
Now the wind from off the mountains wails a sad goodbye
[Verse 2]
D                  Em                  A                     D
Months passed as fast as antelopes until one fatal dismal dawn

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I walked to see morning sun shine down on where she was gone

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I'd known that lately she'd been sad women sometimes get that way

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I hadn't guessed how much was wrong until that fatal day

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She had left the weeping letter homesick with mountain names

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She was somewhere in the Rockies and I knew I'd been to blame

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So now in Colorado Springs I wait near old Pike's Peak

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Where once I met a mountain girl that mountain girl I seek
[Chorus]
D                 Em              A               D
She came from the mountains Rocky Mountains eagle-high

                     Em        A              D
She's from where the mountains lean up to the sky

                         Em            A                 D
Now she's back among the Rockies where mountain thunders cry

                          Em        A               D
Now the wind from off the mountains wails a sad goodbye