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- LAm REm LAm
Well she had twenty years when she turned to her mother
REm LAm DO REm FA LAm Sayin', "Mother I know that you'll grieve, but I've given my soul to St. John The Gambler
DO LAm REm LAmTomorrow comes time to leave. Well the hills cannot hold back my sorrow forever
- REm LAm DO REm FA LAm
Dead men lie deep 'round my door, the only salvation that's mine for the askin'
MIm LAm So mother think on me no more."
REm LAm REm LAmThe winter howled high 'round the mountain's breast, and the cold of a thousand snows
- DO REm FA LAm DO LAm
Lay heaped upon the forest sleep. She dressed in Calico.
REm LAm REm LAm For a gambler likes his women fancy, fancy she would be
DO REm FA LAm MIm LAmAnd the fires of her longing would keep 'way the cold, and her dress was a sight to see.
- REm LAm REm LAm
But the road was long beneath her feet, she followed her frozen breath
DO REm FA LAm DO LAm In search of a certain St. John The Gambler, stumbled to her death.
REm LAm REm LAmAnd she heard his laughter right down from the mountain, danced with her mother's tears
- DO REm FA LAm MIm LAm
To a funeral drone of Calico, 'neath a cross of twenty years.
REm FA LAm MIm LAm To a funeral drone of Calico, 'neath a cross of twenty years.
- LAm REm
Well she had twenty years when she
LAm ..turned to her mother
REmSayin', "Mother I know that you'll
- LAm DO REm
..grieve, but I've given my soul
FA LAm ..to St. John The Gambler
DO LAmTomorrow comes time to leave.
- REm
..Well the hills cannot hold back
LAm ..my sorrow forever
REm LAmDead men lie deep 'round my door,
- DO REm FA
..the only salvation that's mine
LAm ..for the askin'
MIm LAmSo mother think on me no more."
- REm
The winter howled high 'round the
LAm REm ..mountain's breast, and the cold
LAm..of a thousand snows
- DO REm FA LAm
Lay heaped upon the forest sleep.
DO LAm ..She dressed in Calico.
REm LAmFor a gambler likes his women
- REm LAm
..fancy, fancy she would be
DO REm And the fires of her longing would
FA LAm..keep 'way the cold, and her
- MIm LAm
..dress was a sight to see.
REm LAm But the road was long beneath her
REm LAm..feet, she followed her frozen
..breath
DO REm FAIn search of a certain St. John
- LAm DO LAm
..The Gambler, stumbled to her
..death.
- REm
And she heard his laughter right
LAm REm ..down from the mountain, danced
LAm..with her mother's tears
- DO REm FA LAm
To a funeral drone of Calico,
MIm LAm ..'neath a cross of twenty years.
REm FA LAmTo a funeral drone of Calico,
- MIm LAm
..'neath a cross of twenty years.
- SUONA ANCHE ..
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