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