Mountain Right chords by Hoyt Axton
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Verse 1
(G major) (C major) He was (F major) born in Dixon
Holler in (C major) 1893,
Never (F major) had no runnin water no electricity.
(C major) He (G major) raised his own tabacco
and he (F major) raised a family,
he (G major) alway's said you can't go wrong
in life if you do whats mountain (C major) right.
Stand your ground straight and
tall mountain (F major) right,
go down proud if you must (A minor) fall this
has (D minor) alway's been our (A minor) land and I
(F major) love it more than (E minor) life,
and when I (D minor) die I'll know that
(G major) I lived Mountain (C major) Right.
Verse 2
A (F major) car rolled up one day with US
Highway on the (C major) door.
(F major) The interstate is coming through
you can't live here anymore,
(C major) (G major) The old man said my pa
lived here and (D minor) my
grandpa be (F major) fore and (G major) I ain't
giving up without a fight.
I'm Gunna do what's Mountain (C major) Right.
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Verse 3
Well (F major) they came back to give him one
last chance to change his (C major) mind.
They (F major) came with guns and dogs and talked
through megaphones this (C major) time.
(G major) The old man said I told you once
I'm (F major) not the runnin kind,
if (G major) you boy's don't shoot first,
well I just might and I'll
be Mountain Right. (C major)
Verse 4
I'll stand my (C major) ground straight and tall
Mountain (F major) Right,
just say the hell with all you all. (A minor)
If your (D minor) gunna take my (A minor) land,
your gunna (F major) have to take
my life (E minor) and when I
(D minor) die, I'll know that (G major) I lived
Mountain (C major) Right.
Verse 5
Now if (F major) you gas up in dixon ask anyone
in (C major) town they'll (F major) point you to a
cabin that the highway goes (C major) around
(G major) you can read the head stone where
his (F major) eppitatt is found says (G major) god may
judge him in a diffrent lite but
here he was Mountain (C major) Right he stood
his ground stright and tall
Mountain (F major) Right said I'll fall proud if
I must (A minor) fall this had (D minor) always
been his land (A minor) and he (F major) loved
it more than (E minor) life
when he (D minor) died he knew in (G major) side
he was Mountain (C major) Right.
Verse 6
He was (F major) born in dixon holler in (C major) 1893
never (F major) had no running water no (C major) electricty.
He (G major) raised his own tobacco
and he (F major) raised a family,
he (G major) always said you can't go wrong in
life if you do what's Mountain Right.
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