Verse 1EmC
Took my family away from my Carolina home
EmC
Had dreams about the West and started to roam
EmC
Six long months on a dust covered trail
EmC
They say heaven's at the end, but so far it's been hell
ChorusGD
And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air,
AmCEmCEmC
Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there
Verse 2EmC
We were diggin' and siftin' from five to five
EmC
Sellin' everything we found just to stay alive
EmC
Gold flowed free like the whiskey in the bars
EmC
Sinnin' was the big thing, Lord, and Satan was his star
ChorusGD
And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air,
AmCEmCEmC
Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there
InstrumentalGDAmCGGDAmCEmCEmCEmCEmCVerse 3EmC
Dance hall girls were the evenin' treat
EmC
Empty cartridges and blood lines the gutters of the street
EmC
Men were shot down for the sake of fun,
EmC
or just to hear the noise of their forty four guns
ChorusGD
And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air,
AmCEmCEmC
Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there
Verse 4EmC
Now my widow, she weeps by my grave
EmC
Tears flow free for her man she couldn't save
EmC
Shot down in cold blood by a gun that carried fame,
EmC
all for a useless and no good, worthless claim
ChorusGD
And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air,
AmCG
gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there
OutroGD
Fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air,
AmCEm
Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there
CG
..waitin' for me there..
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