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[Verse 1]
  Em                        C
Took my fam'ly away from my Carolina home
   Em                          C           G C
Had dreams about the West and started to roam
  Em                            C
Six long months on a dust covered trail
   Em                                     C     G  C
They say heaven's at the end but so far it's been hell

[Chorus]
            G                     D
And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
             C                    Am   Em
Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there

[Verse 2]
     Em                             C
We were diggin' and siftin' from five to five
     Em                             C  G  C
Sellin' everything we found just to stay alive
     Em                                C
Gold flowed free like the whiskey in the bars
      Em                              C  G  C
Sinnin' was the big thing, lord and Satan was his star

[Chorus]
            G                     D
And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
             C                     Am   Em
Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there

[Verse 3]
    Em                         C
Dance hall girls were the evenin' treat
      Em                             C     G    C
Empty cartridges and blood lined the gutters of the street
    Em                       C
Men were shot down for the sake of fun
    Em                             C   G    C
Or just to hear the noise of their forty-four guns

[Chorus]
             G                      D
And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
              C                     Am   Em
Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there

[Verse 4]
   Em                            C
Now my widow she weeps by my grave
   Em                           C     G  C
Tears flow free for her man she couldn't save
   Em                                 C
Shot down in cold blood by a gun that carried fame
   Em                          C    G   C
All for a useless and no good worthless claim


[Chorus]
            G                       D
And there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
             C                      Am  Em
Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there
            G          D
Fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air
             C                      Am  Em
Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there
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Waitin' for me there