Mountain Man chords by
Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed

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Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Mountain Man
For I was even old enough
to count to ten
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Cause you start your kind of young hauling logs,
chopping timber
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When you're growing up to
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be a mountain man
Clearing timber off your
pappy's bottom land
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Well, mountain man, mountain man
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Lived his life by the code of the clan
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You make your way just the
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best way you can
When you're raised up to
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be a mountain man
God -fearing,
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hard -working mountain man
Well, I fell across a creek,
went and bought a silver flipper
A 1934 sedan,
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he traded it to Paul
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for a sow with the litter
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And my Pappy was a mighty happy man
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Cause he started running moonshine
down to the city
A feller had no money there to pay
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But the revenuers caught him,
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put him in the county jail
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And they kept him there a year and a day
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On the work day and gettin' no pay
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Well, Mountain Man, Mountain Man,
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lived his life by the code of the Klan
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You make your way just the
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best way you can
When you're raised up to
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be a mountain man
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God -fearing, heart -breaking mountain man
An old hermit up the ridge
took a shot at the preacher
A bullet ricocheted and
hit his thumb
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Everybody got together
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and they prayed for the preacher
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But the doctor had to amputate his thumb
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So the God -fearing neighbors
all formed a little posse
And they cornered that
hermit on the bridge
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Then they hung him by his toes
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till his nose started bleedin'
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Then they chased him out of sight
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across the ridge
Just to kick him up his heels
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across the ridge
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Well, mountain man, mountain man
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Lives his life by the code of the Klan
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You make your way
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just the best way you can
When you're raised up to
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be a mountain man
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Caught very hard kickin' mountain man
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Yes, mountain man, mountain man
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Lives his life by the code of the Klan
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You make your way,
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just the best way you can,
when you're raised up to
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be a mountain man.
Got a beard and heart like a mountain man.

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