C
C F C F
I was born on Stagger Mountain in the sunshine and the snow
C Bb F G
And leaving was the first mistake I made
C G F C
But I hungered for the shadows in the valley down below
C Bb C
And a girl that danced the tune the devil played
C F C F
Her smile was like the blinding light of sunshine on the snow
C Bb F G
And the flashing of her hair was black as sin.
C G F C
And her body set the smokes of hell a-boiling in my skull
C Bb C
When the fiddle of the devil made her spin.
F C
Born in sunshine [sunshine] high on the mountain,
G F C
Where the air is pure and cold;
G F C
But there's darkness in the shadows
Bb C
In the canyons of my soul.
C
C F C F
The lantern cast her shadow like a demon on the wall
C Bb F G
And the naked sweat was gleaming on her skin;
C G F C
Then the room was spinning closer as her clothes began to fall
C Bb C
And the eagle started screaming in my brain
C F C F
Then I saw the laughing dagger and I heard the devil scream
C Bb F G
And her bleeding heart was beating in my hand.
C G F C
Then the darkness flew away and I was standing by a tree
C Bb C
With a hanging rope a-danglin' from a limb.
F C
Born in sunshine [sunshine] high on the mountain,
G F C
Where the air is pure and cold;
G F C
But there's darkness in the shadows
Bb C
In the canyons of my soul.
C
