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The Foggy Mountain Top by The Carter Family - Guitar Chords

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Version 1

            This is an interpretation of the original for beginner players, and not necessarily exactly
true to the original song.

The strum is the basic DDUUDU pattern played as fast as you can manage.
The chord progression is just G/C/G/D7 repeated every two lines (although I usually 
leave out the D7 at the end of each verse and instead hold the 
G, while varying the strum pattern a bit. Do whatever sounds best to you.)

[Verse]
G                C              G
If I was on some foggy mountain top
G                    D7
I'd sail away to the west
G                    C          G
I'd sail around this whole wide world
G                      D7
To the girl I love the best

[Verse]
G                   C         G
If I had listened t'what mama says
G                          D7
I would not have been here today
G              C             G
A-lying around this old jail house
G                       D7
A-weeping my sweet life away

[Chorus]
G            C                G
Yeah, oh-lay-ee-oh, lee-oh-la-ee-ay
           C           G
Lee-oh-lay-ee, lay-ee, oh-lay-ee

[Verse]
G              C            G
Oh, if you see that girl of mine
G                          D7
There's something you must tell her
G                       C         G
She need not be foolin' no time away
G                   D7
To court some other feller

[Verse]
G                                  C            G
Oh, she's caused me to weep, she's caused me to mourn
G                         D7
She caused me to leave my home
G                         C            G
For the lonesome pine and the good old times
G                  D7
I'm on my way back home

[Chorus]
G            C                G
Yeah, oh-lay-ee-oh, lee-oh-la-ee-ay
           C           G
Lee-oh-lay-ee, lay-ee, oh-lay-ee

[Verse]
G                 C   G
Oh, when you go a-courtin'
G                    D7
I'll tell you how to do
G                  C            G
Pull off that long-tailed roustabout
G                D7
Put on your navy blue

[Chorus]
G            C                G
Yeah, oh-lay-ee-oh, lee-oh-la-ee-ay
           C           G
Lee-oh-lay-ee, lay-ee, oh-lay-ee 
        

We also have 40 songs by The Carter Family

• Anchored In Love
• Beautiful Isle Oer The Sea
• Black Jack David
• Can The Circle Be Unbroken
• Church In The Wildwood
• Darling Little Joe
• Engine One-Forty-Three
• Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room
• Give Me The Roses While I Live
• Gold Watch And Chain
• Hello Central Give Me Heaven
• Homestead On The Farm
• I Cant Feel At Home
• I Never Will Marry
• Im Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
• Jimmie Brown The Newsboy
• John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man
• Keep On The Sunny Side
• Little Darling Pal Of Mine
• Lonesome For You
• Lulu Walls
• My Clinch Mountain Home
• My Dixie Darling
• My Texas Girl
• On The Sea Of Galilee
• Single Girl Married Girl
• The Foggy Mountain Top
• The Happiest Days Of All
• The Mountains Of Tennessee
• The Western Hobo
• Wabash Cannonball
• When Im Gone
• When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
• When The Worlds On Fire
• Where Well Never Grow Old
• Why Do You Cry Little Darling
• Wildwood Flower
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken
• Will You Miss Me When Im Gone
• Worried Man Blues

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