Billy Bob Thornton - That Mountain guitar chord

That Mountain

written by Billy Bob Thornton and Marty Stuart

(based on a story told to Thornton by Jim Varney)

from the album "Private Radio"

Corrections welcome. tabbed 5/6/05

INTRO: D

D

There's a big black train I've been hearin' all my life

C D

Every night at sundown I hear it's lonesome cry

When I look through the screen door I see a rocking chair

C

My mama's sitting in it thinking 'bout that world out there

CHORUS:

G C D G A D

She wants to go over that mountain to see what's on the other side

G C D Bm A D

She said "I want to go over that mountain before the day that I die"

SOLO

D

She's never set foot out of this poor valley holler

C D

But she talks about her dreams of some other way of life

87 years of living and never had much of anything

C D

Is it asking too much to see a damned old diesel train

CHORUS

SOLO

D

20 years ago today my daddy left this holler

C D

He said "I'll be coming back tomorrow night"

I remember the sound of his boot heels in the gravel

C D

Well he ain't been back since and he never said goodbye

CHORUS

Bm A D

Before the day that I die