Chords for Mountain Heartache / Alex Leach of Ralph Stanley II and the Clinch Mountain Boys

[Eb] [F] It's called the Mountain Holiday.
[Eb] Look at all that.
I love it.
_ _ _ You have a Boston collar, don't you?
I thought she was Boston.
[Ebm] Well, I [G] used to be until I [Eb] married her.
Oh! _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ [Eb] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I was born in the 19th of August,
in the year of 1933. _
Live a [Bb] lifetime of [Ab] sorrow,
with no [Eb] one to care for me.
Oh, with no one to care for me.
_ I've never been in Austin,
left us when Annie died,
when I was two.
God has told [Ab] me to race me,
but before I took [Eb] into it,
I'd seen all the [Ab] war and [Eb] the peace.
I've been through a lot.
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
When they pulled me to Washington,
[Gm] there was a whole lot of big trouble in [Cm] my hands.
[Eb] Life will often be [Ab] a torture,
just do [Eb] the best you can.
I was just three. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I fell in love with the city woman,
and I left her with all my heart and soul.
[Bb] The pitch-black man [Ab] was so drunk he
took my heart and left [Eb] me behold
a distorted, ghost-like soul.
_ And then I found a girl from Birmingham,
and I don't care if you say
I love the face of [Ab] Alpine,
all the torture [Eb] inside of me.
I'm so [Ab] alone in the world [Eb] I had to hold.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
[Gm] How about it, Hills of Bould, let's hear you one [Eb] time! _ _ _
I _ broke a sweat so bad I can't even keep my glasses on.
I'm having fun tonight! _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Eb] _
_ [Ab] _ _ Yeah!
[Eb] Now _ [Cm] _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
that's come hangin' creepin' over me
just waiting to take away the pain.
The trial and [Abm] trial will be over
for him's [Eb] reborn again.
When Jesus