Chords for Shane Smith & The Saints "The Mountain" LIVE on The Texas Music Scene

_ _ _ _ [A] You know, when it's done right, there's nothing quite like really good four or even five part harmonies.
Shane Smith and the Saints' 2015 album Geronimo features plenty of that vocal ear-cat.
It has propelled this outfit to a whole other level.
Here's a great example.
It's their song, The Mountain.
But first, Shane and the guys, give us the story behind the tune.
_ [E] The Mountain is a song [A] that I wrote [D] about a [A] town called Centralia, Pennsylvania.
It was a coal mining town that actually caught fire, _ and the mine shaft caught fire, and
they've never been able to put it out.
Eventually, it became a ghost town because everybody [E] had to leave.
Smoke [D] was coming up from out of the [A] ground and _ still exists today.
I read into it a [Em] little bit online [D] and researched it a little bit, and I just thought it was
fascinating and [E] decided I wanted to write about it.
I had been working on [F#m] kind of like an Appalachian [D] folk _ type of _ [E] vocal part even beforehand, and
I ended up kind of combining the [A] two, and we made a four part harmony out of the intro
and the outro of it.
It just became _ kind of an Appalachian storytelling hymn, I guess.
But we've been working on four part [E] harmony things for probably about [D] three and a half
years [A] so far.
And at the very beginning, when the majority of us [E] started playing together, we weren't
doing the four part [D] harmony.
It took about probably six months to a year before we were comfortable [A] with the fact that,
hey, there's _ potential here for us to start working [B] on this.
And then from then [A] on, we kind of ran with it.
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The mouth, _ _ the [Dm] dragon, _ _ _ _ in his _ _ _ [C] lungs, the _ [D] cold, he keeps. _ _ _ _ _
In his _ [Am] lungs, the cold, _ [D] he _ keeps. _ _
_ _ _ _ Fare thee [C] well, shouted [D] the preacher.
Fare thee well, [C] he sang.
[D] He spanned out inside [G] the mouth [Dm] of the [C] dragon, bound for _ [D]
heaven's gate.
_ [G] Bound for _ [D]
heaven's _ gate.
All the [C] homes were dark [Dm] as molasses, but the house of [C] the Lord, _ [D] the man who fell [G]
in [Am] that
abound, is wrapped up [D] on his porch.
_ [G] Wrapped him [Dm] on his _ _ porch.
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_ _ _ _ _ Take [C] me home to [D] the mountain. _ _ _
_ _ _ Oh, am [C] I _ _ [D] lost to _ say, _ but _ _ beware [C] the mouth [D] of the dragon. _
_ In [F] his _ [Dm] _ lungs, the [G] cold, [D] he keeps. _ _ _
_ In [A] his _ lungs, [G] the cold, he [Dm] _ _ _ keeps.
_ _ _ _ _ Hallelujah, _ slayed the dragon, son of the [C] dead man's saint.
[D] Held in a [G] magic side [Dm] of the [Am] shaft, burned [G] his [D] lungs away.
_ _ [G] Burned his [Dm] lungs [D] away.
_ _ _ _ [C] In _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] the _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
mountain.
_ _ The _ _ tales [Am] my mother used [Dm] to _ sing _ _ _ of [Am] the _ _ father killed by the [Dm] dragon. _ _ _ _
And [Am] the _ son [C] who _
[Dm] avenged his name. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
Thank you all very much.
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