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Snake Mountain Blues by Townes Van Zandt - Guitar Chords

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Version 1

            "Snake Mountain Blues" from Out Mother the Mountain (1969)
by Townes Van Zandt


Em - Am - Am - Em
 
 Em                         Am
Mr. Ten Dollar man, let me tell where you're bound
                                      Em
Drink your green liquor, Lord, you'll roll to the ground
 Em                               Am
But you come around here, with your money in your hand
  Am7             Dm                 Em             Am         em
Taste of my woman, you die where you stand

Chorus:
 Am                         Em
Snake Mountain blues, they got me down low
         Am                      Em
I could die in the morning but no one would know
     Em                   Am
My woman come 'round, my body she'd find
           Dm                  Am
Go down to Dundee - have her a time

                      Em                  Am
Snake Mountain's gonna crumble, Lord, and fall from the sky 
                                 Em
before that woman of mine stops tellin' her lies 
        Em                                         Am
If I'd die Lord she'd weep, she'd weep and she'd mourn
                                       Em            Am         Em
Soon as I's buried... Forget I'd been born

       Em                              Am  
Well a black-skinned woman, she won't do you no wrong
                             Em
Slow to start moanin' - she don't moan for long
        Em                            Am
Oh, a yellow-headed woman brings you nothin' but pain
                              Em                   Am         Em
Take all you give her... she leaves only shame

   Em                        Am
My Daddy, Lord he rides on a long holy train
                            Em
First winds of winter I'll see him again
     Em                              Am
It's farewell to this yellow-headed misery I've known
                                       Em          Am         Em
Snake Mountain's calling... Callin' me home

Chorus:
 Am                         Em
Snake Mountain blues, they got me down low
         Am                      Em
I could die in the morning but no one would know
     Em                   Am
My woman come 'round, my body she'd find
           Dm                  Am
Go down to Dundee - have her a time 
        

We also have 35 songs by Townes Van Zandt

• At My Window
• Be Here To Love Me
• Buckskin Stallion Blues
• Colorado Girl
• Columbine
• Dont Take It Too Bad
• Dont You Take It Too Bad
• Fare Thee Well Miss Carousel
• Flyin Shoes
• For The Sake Of The Song
• If I Needed You
• Ill Be Here In The Morning
• Kathleen
• Like A Summer Thursday
• Loretta
• Lungs
• Mr Mudd And Mr Gold
• My Proud Mountains
• No Place To Fall
• None But The Rain
• Nothin
• Our Mother The Mountain
• Pancho And Lefty
• Quicksilver Daydreams Of Maria
• Rake
• Rexs Blues
• She Came And She Touched Me
• Snake Mountain Blues
• Snowin On Raton
• Tecumseh Valley
• To Live Is To Fly
• Tower Song
• Waitin Around To Die
• White Freight Liner Blues
• White Freightliner Blues

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