Mountain Men chords by Jethro Tull
Intro 1
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Asus4
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Em
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Em
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The
Verse 1
poacher and
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his daughter throw soft shadows on the water in the night.
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A thin moon slips behind them as they pull the net with no
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betraying light.
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And later on the coast road,
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I meet them and the old man winks a smile.
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And who am I to fast deny the right to take
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a fish once in a while?
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I walk with them, they wish me luck when I ship out on
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the Sunday from the Kyle.
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And from the church I hear them singing as
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the ship moves sadly from the pier.
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Oh, poacher's daughter, Sunday best, two hundred brave souls share the farewell tear.
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There's a house on the hillside,
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where the drifting sands are born.
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Verse 2
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Lay down and let the slow tide wash me back
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to the land where I came from.
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Where the mountain men are kings and the sound
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of the piper counts for everything.
Did my tour, did my duty.
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I did all they asked of me.
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Died in the trenches and at Alamein died
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in the Falklands on T.V.
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Going back to the mountain kings where
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the sound of the piper counts for everything.
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Verse 3
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Long generations from the Isles
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Sent to tread the foreign miles
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Where the spiral ages meet.
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Felt naked dust beneath their feet.
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Future sun called winds to blow
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And the past and present
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hard- eyed crow
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Flew hunting high and circling low over blackened plains of
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Eden.
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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There's a child and a woman praying
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for an end to the mystery.
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Hoping for a word in a letter fair wind- blown
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from across the sea
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To where the mountain men are kings and the sound of the piper counts
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for everything.
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There's a house on the hillside,
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where the drifting sands are born.
Verse 5
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Lay down and let the slow tide wash me back
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to the land where I came from.
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Where the mountain men are kings and
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the sound of the piper counts for everything.
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Where the real mountain
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men are kings
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And the sound of the piper
counts for everything.
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Verse 6
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Feel the naked dust beneath my toes
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While the future sun calls winds to blow
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And the past and present
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black- eyed crow
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Flies hunting high and circling low
Between dream mountains of our
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Eden.
Outro 1
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Csus4
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Mountain Men
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