Mountain Man chords by
Jerry Reed
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Key: E major
Intro 1
F#
F#

E
E

B
B

F#
F#

B
B

E
E

B
B

E
E

F#
F#

B
B

E
E

B
B

C#
C#

F#
F#

B
B

Verse 1
B
B

Mountain Man
For I was even old enough
to count to ten
E
E

Cause you start your kind of young hauling logs,
chopping timber
B
B

E
E

When you're growing up to
F#
F#

be a mountain man
Clearing timber off your
pappy's bottom land
B
B

E
E

B
B

Well, mountain man, mountain man
F#
F#

B
B

Lived his life by the code of the clan
E
E

You make your way just the
B
B

best way you can
When you're raised up to
E
E

F#
F#

be a mountain man
God -fearing,
B
B

hard -working mountain man
Well, I fell across a creek,
went and bought a silver flipper
A 1934 sedan,
E
E

he traded it to Paul
B
B

for a sow with the litter
C#
C#

E
E

And my Pappy was a mighty happy man
F#
F#

B
B

Cause he started running moonshine
down to the city
A feller had no money there to pay
E
E

But the revenuers caught him,
B
B

put him in the county jail
E
E

F#
F#

And they kept him there a year and a day
B
B

On the work day and gettin' no pay
E
E

B
B

Well, Mountain Man, Mountain Man,
F#
F#

B
B

lived his life by the code of the Klan
E
E

You make your way just the
B
B

best way you can
When you're raised up to
E
E

F#
F#

be a mountain man
B
B

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
E
E

Everybody got together
B
B

and they prayed for the preacher
C#
C#

E
E

C#
C#

F#
F#

But the doctor had to amputate his thumb
B
B

So the God -fearing neighbors
all formed a little posse
And they cornered that
hermit on the bridge
E
E

Then they hung him by his toes
B
B

till his nose started bleedin'
E
E

Then they chased him out of sight
F#
F#

across the ridge
Just to kick him up his heels
B
B

across the ridge
E
E

B
B

Well, mountain man, mountain man
F#
F#

B
B

Lives his life by the code of the Klan
E
E

You make your way
B
B

just the best way you can
When you're raised up to
E
E

F#
F#

be a mountain man
B
B

Caught very hard kickin' mountain man
E
E

B
B

Yes, mountain man, mountain man
F#
F#

B
B

Lives his life by the code of the Klan
E
E

You make your way,
B
B

just the best way you can,
when you're raised up to
E
E

F#
F#

be a mountain man.
Got a beard and heart like a mountain man.

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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# E B C#

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