Townes Van Zandt – The Hills Of Roane County (Guitar)

C                Em    F      G              C
In the beautiful hills in the midst of Roane Country

                                        G    G7
It's there that I labored my whole life away

                    C         G            F
It’s there that my heart is a-turnin' most ever

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It's there the first steps of misfortune I made

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I’s about thirty years when I courted and married

                                   G    G7
Miss Armanda Gilbert to be my fair wife

                  C     F                C
For some unknown reason, her brother Tom stabbed me

                   C       G               C    F    C
And not two months later, I'd taken Tom's life

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I's captured and tried in a village of Kingsport

                                       G    G7
Not a soul in that village could say a kind word

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When a jury come in with the verdict next mornin'

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"A lifetime in prison," are the words that I heard

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Well my mama come down to see me at the station

                                         G   G7
My sweet sister Donna stood there by her side

                   C  G                         F
They turned for to go, but I was chained to the platform

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They said, "Willie, God bless you, God bless you, goodbye"

C                    Em    F                 C
In the scorching hot sands of a foundry, I'm toiling

                                         G  G7
Just a-toilin' and sweatin' my poor life away

                 C  F                   C
When I die, bury me on the banks of old Cumberland

                        C       G     C      F    C
In the beautiful green hills of east Tennessee

                 Em    F      G              C
In the beautiful hills in the midst of Roane Country

                      C                    G   G7
It’s there that I’ve labored my whole life away

                   C     G                 F
It's there that my heart is a-turnin’ most ever

                     C        G            C    F    C
It's there the first steps of misfortune I made