Mountain Heartache Chords by Alex Leach

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_ _ _ I was born up in Katy Harbor _ in the year of 33.
_ _ _ _ Lived a lifetime [Ab] of sorrow _ with no one to care [Eb] for me.
Lord, [Cm] no one to [Eb] care for me. _ _ _
My mother ran way off and left us.
My daddy died when I was two.
My _ brother's folks [Ab] tried to raise me,
but that war it took [Eb] them too.
That awful [Ab] war it took [Eb] them _ too. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Well, they put me to work in a curly coal mine,
picking shovel in my _ [Cm] hands.
[Eb] _ Life don't offer [Ab] any choices.
_ You must do the [Eb] best you can.
I was much too young to be a man. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
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fell in love with a city woman, _
and I loved her with all my [Cm] heart and soul.
[Eb] But a rich, stubborn man [Ab] stole her from me,
took my heart and left [Eb] me behold.
[Cm] Oh, destroyed [Ab] this mountain [Eb] boy's soul.
_ _ _ _ And then I found she took my unborn young love,
and hid my child never to be _ seen.
Another piece [Ab] of mountain _ heartache
causing torture deep [Eb] inside of me.
[Cm] I'm so [Ab] lonesome, oh [Eb] Lord, help me. _ _ _ _
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_ Now death's come, hands are creeping over me,
just waiting to take [Cm] away my pain.
[Eb] Those trials and troubles will [Ab] be over,
for heaven's [Eb] reward I'll gain.
[Cm] And Jesus [Ab] calls out this [Eb] mountain boy's name. _
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