There Goes The Mountain chords by Tom Paxton

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Bb 
There goes the mountain,
Am 
F 
Am 
father of fir trees
G 
Am 
G 
Home for the grizzlies,
Am 
under its snow
F 
Am 
Shorn of its timber,
F 
Am 
torn by the monsters
G 
Taken by truckloads to the
Am 
great plains below

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Verse 2
Am 
F 
There goes the mountain,
G 
F 
Am 
the avalanche maker
D 
Heaven's caretaker,
Dm 
Am 
breeder  of streams
F 
There goes the mountain,
G 
Am 
maker of thunder
D 
F 
Torn down for the plunder,
G 
Am 
remembered in dreams

Interlude 1

Verse 3
G 
There goes the mountain,
Am 
F 
Am 
greeter of sunrise
G 
Am 
Giant by starlight, the highest and best
F 
Bb 
The roar of the en gines,
Am 
G 
Am 
F 
Am 
the first in its lifetime
G 
Will take what men value
Am 
and spit out the rest

Verse 4
F 
And there goes the mountain,
Am 
the avalanche maker
D 
Heaven's caretaker,
Dm 
Am 
breeder of streams
F 
There goes the mountain,
Am 
maker of thunder
D 
Torn down for the plunder,
F 
Am 
remembered in dreams

Verse 5
F 
Am 
Lord of the highlands,
F 
Am 
home for the eagles
G 
Catcher of snowfalls for
Am 
millions of years
F 
G 
Am 
Em 
Bleeding in mudslides, robbed
F 
G 
Am 
of its in sides
G 
Am 
Prey to the skills of the bold engineer

Verse 6
Am 
F 
And there goes the mountain,
Am 
the avalanche maker
D 
Heaven's caretaker,
Am 
breeder of streams
F 
There goes the mountain,
Am 
maker of thunder
D 
F 
Torn down for the plunder,
Am 
remembered in dreams