Key: D minor•
Verse 1
Charlie's cabin sits high on a mountain,
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looks on the valley below.
His people were here when
this place had no name
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That was a long time ago
Now power lines climb up the
side of his mountain
Town stretches further each day
They want to build a new interstate bypass,
black charlies riding their way.
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He said you've taken the place where the sweet grasses grow,
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and the waters that flow
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Leave me my six feet of ground
The county commissioners
made a fair vote
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The newspapers said it was so
You can't hold back
progress or civilization
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Charlie will have to go
They sent up a sheriff and deputies too
With shotguns and warrants and words
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Charlie said a
Scotch -Irish prayer
And he sang him a
Cherokee praise
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He said, you've taken the place
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Where the sweet grasses grow
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You've poisoned the wind
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Leave me my six feet of ground
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Leave me my six feet of ground
Nobody knows why the
shooting began
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There's no living soul who will tell
All you can say is the real trouble started
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The minute that black charlie fell
Dark clouds all gathered,
the skies opened up
And a hard rain began to come down
The water poured over the
side of his mountain
Till there wasn't much left of that town
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He said, you've taken the place
where the sweet grasses grow
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You've poisoned the wind
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Leave me my six feet of ground
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Charlie's ghost watches
over his mountain
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His cabin is there to this day
The government built their
new interstate bypass
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They put it up ten miles away
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsDm Am G Gm A
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