The Legend Of Jonas Willingham Chords by Lonesome River Band

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_ _ _ _ In the [F] mountains of [G] southeastern Kentucky, _ lived a man [F] named Jonas [G] Willingham.
_ He [F] lived all alone [G] on Pine Mountain.
Legend has it [F] Jonas feared no [G] living man. _ _ _ _ _
He came here [F] in the early [G] _ _
1850s, continued his [Cm] song before the [G] war began.
He learned [F] to survive [G] in the mountains, _ facing life or [F] death became the [G] mountain man. _ _
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[Gm] _ [G] _ _ _ No one knows [F] why he came [G] to Kentucky.
He stayed to [F] himself upon that [G] _ _ mountainside.
Some say he [F] killed his wife [G] and her love.
_ Then he came [Dm] to the [G] mountains to hide. _ _ _ _
They say old Jonas [F] walked the hills [G] and the potholes.
For those who might [F] come looking [G] for him, well, _ his keen eye [F] and knowledge of [G] Pine Mountain _
might someday help [F] protect this [G] mountain place. _
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_ _ _ _ _ By [C] 1862 the war [G] had started.
_ Yankee [Dm] soldiers roamed the [Gm] _ mountainside.
Old Jonas must [F] have thought they'd come [G] to take him.
_ _ And by his hand a [F] half dozen [Am] soldiers [G] died. _ _ _ _
Half-wolves say they hung old Jonas on Pine Mountain. _
From a hollow tree [F] one morning [G] at dawn.
When they came to take his body down the deep end,
they found old Jonas swilling down the throes.
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