{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2113361,"song":"Mountain Angel","artist":"Dolly Parton","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/2113361-mountain-angel-chords-by-dolly-parton/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2113361?type=chord","rating":4.42982,"votes":4,"content":"capo 2 \r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nPretty as an angel from the day that she was born [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSkin as fair as Lily's hair, as golden as the corn [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThey knew that she was special from the moment she first cried [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nShe was a mountain angel certified [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe was her momma's baby, she was her daddy's pride [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nGood at home, at church and school, at everything she tried [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nEverybody's darlin' led a charmed and peaceful life [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe perfect mountain angel 'til he arrived [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd ohh, she fell so deeply [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOoooh, she couldn't stop [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe gave herself to him, milled it completely [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe lifted her so high he let her drop [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe gave up everything for him that mattered in her life [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAll the others that had loved her and she vowed to be his wife [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe dreamed of bearing children in an ivy-covered house [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe mountain angel's sunshine turned to clouds [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe wicked handsome stranger left the way he came [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBroke her heart and broke her mind [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe never was the same [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThey say he was the devil [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat had come to steal her soul [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nShe never loved another it was told [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThey say she had a baby [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSome say that it had died [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThey it's just as well [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAs it had been the devil's child [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThey say good conquers evil [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut here, evil won the prize [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo the mountain angel took to the wild [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd ooh, she couldn't take it [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYears passed and she had long since lost her mind [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe waited for him as her beauty faded [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHer parents died from grief before their time [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe tried to gather pieces of her life, they wouldn't fit [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBeside the tiny grave deep in the woods is where she'd sit [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTalking to the child, herself, to him, who knew for sure [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPossessed they say by satan's insane lure [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHigh a'top the mountain, for years they say she's seen [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nLooking down upon the town where she had once been queen [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe'd sneak around the playground, watch the little children play [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey'd see the crazy lady then run away [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThey say she roamed these hills for years, wearing not a stitch [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe lovely mountain angel now thought to be a witch [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe made those wailing mournful sounds [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat you could hear for miles [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLong after she laid down upon her baby's grave and died [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd ooh, her ghost is callin' [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nShe's waiting for the ones that she adored [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThrough spring and summer, fall when snow is fallin' [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHer spirit roams these hills forever more [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe mountain angel's voices ever more [/tab]","plain_text":"capo 2","chords":["G","C","D","Em"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}