Gibbonsville Gold chords by Hank Williams, Jr.

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Intro 1

Verse 1
My name is bill
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D 
harlan i'm a god fearing man
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From the lost rebel army
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A tennessee calvary man
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From shilo to nashville we
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Made our last stand
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When the battles were over
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Everything we had was gone
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with the wind
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But i still had my family and
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A hope and a dream and i
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heard of gold fever
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And the rocky mountain streams
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So we took what we had
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And some gold digging gear
And we headed for a new
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A 
D 
Life on the northwest frontier
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Montana territory where
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the winters are cold
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The lands full of game and the
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A 
Creeks are full of gold
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Just west of the mountains is
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A town they call gibbonsville
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You can sure get gold fever
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You can damn sure get killed
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D 
But i staked my claims, i was raring to go
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I've made up my mind and i
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D 
Set out to find the gibbonsville (d) gold

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Verse 2

Oh, you find just a little

Just enough to get by

Aww, you dig and you dig

And you start wondering why

There's a whole lot more down there

I don't have to be told

I've made up my mind and i'm

Gonna find that gibbonsville gold

Verse 3
Bm 
Every morning at daylight with a
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Pick and a pan
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Keep an eye out for the blackfeet
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Keep a rifle near hand
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Back shooters and grizzlies
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Better stay alert all the time
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Cause the only law here in this wild
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Country is the gun and
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Bm 
A 
D 
the knife
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D 
In the year of our lord, eighteen sixty-nine
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I I lost my dear son to
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a cave-in at at the mine
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Yes i know he's gone please
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God rest his soul
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So many have died trying to
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D 
Find this damned gibbonsville gold

Verse 4
G 
Yeah, you find just a little
D 
Just enough to get by
A 
Aww, you dig and you dig
D 
And you start wondering why
G 
Then someone finds a nugget
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Just as big as your thumb
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D 
And we all go hard at it from sun until sun
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Yeah i got to find it,
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that main mother load
Bm 
I've made up my mind and i
A 
D 
Swear to find that gib
bonsville gold

Verse 5
G 
There's a whole lot more down
there
D 
My share of that main mother load
Bm 
I've made up my mind and i
A 
D 
Swear to find the gibbonsville gold