She Came From The Mountains chords by Johnny Cash

The track is from the album Happiness Is You.

Track Info

• Song: She Came From The Mountains
• Artist: Johnny Cash
• Album: Happiness Is You
• Released Date: 1996

Chords Info

• Tuning: Standard(E A D G B E)
• Key: D
• Chords: D, Em, A
• BPM: 139
• Suggested Strumming: D DU DU DU
• D= Down Stroke, U = Upstroke, N.C= No Chord

[Verse]

D                 Em       
She came from the mountains 
      A               D
Rocky Mountains eagle-high

                     Em       
She's from where the mountains 
A              D
Lean up to the sky
                         Em     
Now she's back among the Rockies 
      A                 D
Where mountain thunders cry

                         
Now the wind from off the 
Em        A              D
Mountains wails a sad goodbye
 
 D                Em           
Once in Colorado Springs at the 
    A              D
Foot of old Pike's Peak
                       Em     
I met a Rocky Mountain girl to 
A                     D
My soul her heart let speak

                        Em     
We went to tell her parents and 
 A                  D
An old grandmother said

                        Em       A 
If you'll leave these mountains girl 
                          D
You'll wish that you were dead
 
D               Em                
The next day I took her with me to
    A            D
 My far-off Iowa home
                         Em       
Way out on the flatlands where the
 A                    D
 Mountain winds don't moan

                          Em      
Each footstep we took was happy or 
 A                   D
At least it shoudn't been

                      Em            A  
But I would find her listening for that 
                   D
Same lone mountain wind
 
[Chorus]

D                 Em     
She came from the mountains 
      A               D
Rocky Mountains eagle-high
                     Em       
She's from where the mountains
       A        D
 Lean up to the sky 
                         Em     
Now she's back among the Rockies
       A                 D
 Where mountain thunders cry
                        
Now the wind from off the 
Em        A               D
Mountains wails a sad goodbye
 
[Verse]

D                  Em                  A   
Months passed as fast as antelopes until 
                    D
One fatal dismal dawn
                             Em        
I walked to see morning sun shine down
  A               D
 On where she was gone
                             Em  
I'd known that lately she'd been 
     A                       D
Sad women sometimes get that way

                             Em     
I hadn't guessed how much was wrong 
       A          D
Until that fatal day
 
 D                Em            
She had left the weeping letter 
       A                D
Homesick with mountain names

                           Em        
She was somewhere in the Rockies and
 A                  D
 I knew I'd been to blame

                          
So now in Colorado Springs 

Em      A              D
I wait near old Pike's Peak
                           Em       
Where once I met a mountain girl that 
A               D
Mountain girl I seek
 
[Chorus]

D                 Em       
She came from the mountains 
      A               D
Rocky Mountains eagle-high
                     Em       
She's from where the mountains 
A              D
Lean up to the sky
                         Em     
Now she's back among the Rockies 
      A                 D
Where mountain thunders cry

                         
Now the wind from off the 
Em        A               D
Mountains wails a sad goodbye