Mountain Angel Chords by Dolly Parton

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Pretty as an [A] angel from the [A] day that she was born.
Skin as fair as lilies, hair as golden as the corn.
They knew that she was special from the moment she first cried.
She was a mountain angel certified.
She _ was her [B] mama's baby, [A] she was her daddy's pride.
Good at home, at church, and school, at everything [E] she [A] tried.
Everybody's darling, led a charmed and peaceful life.
The perfect mountain angel till he arrived. _
And oh, [D] she [A] fell so deeply. _
Oh, [D] she [A] couldn't stop. _
She gave [D] herself to him, [A] yielded completely.
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[A] He lifted her [D] so [A] high, he let her drop.
She _ gave up [D] everything for him [A] that mattered in [D] her life.
[A] All the others [D] that had loved her, [A] and she vowed to [E] be his wife.
[A] She dreamed of [D] bearing children [A] in an ivy [D]-covered house. _
[A] The mountain [D] angel sunshine [A] turned to clouds. _ _
The wicked, handsome stranger left the way he came.
Broke her heart and broke her mind, she never [E] was the same.
[F#m] They say he was the devil [A] that had come to [F#m] steal her soul. _
[A] She never [D] loved another, [A] it was told.
They _ say she [D] had a baby, [A] some say [D] that it had died.
[A] They say it's just [D] as well as [A] it had been the [E] devil's child.
[A] They say good conquers evil, but here evil won the [B] prize.
[A] So the mountain [D] angel took to the wild.
_ And oh, [D] she [A] couldn't take it. _
Years passed and she [D] had loved since [A] lost her mind. _
She waited [D] for as her [A] beauty faded.
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[A] Her parents died from grief before their time. _ _
She tried to gather pieces of her life, they wouldn't fit. _
Beside the tiny grave deep in the woods is where [E] she'd sit.
[A] Talking to the child herself, to him who [D] knew for sure. _
[A] Possessed, they [D] say, by Satan's [A] insane lure. _ _
_ _ _ _ High [D] atop the mountain, [A] for years they [D] say she's seen.
[A] Looking [D] down upon the town where [E] she had once been queen.
[A] She'd sneak [Dm] around the playground, [A] watch the little [D] children play.
[A] Then see the crazy lady, then run away.
They _ say she roamed these hills for years, wearing not a stitch.
The lovely [D] mountain angel, [A] now thought to [E] be a witch.
[A] She made those wailing mournful sounds that you could [D] hear for miles.
[A] Long after, she'd laid down upon her baby's grave [E] and died.
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[D] the [A] ghost is calling, _ she's waiting [D] for the ones that [A] she adored.
_ Through spring and summer, [D] fall and [A] snow is falling.
[D] _ [A] Her spirit roams these hills forevermore.
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