{"id":29177,"date":"2026-01-12T00:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=29177"},"modified":"2026-01-12T00:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:44:06","slug":"fire-on-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/fire-on-the-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire on the Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"
Fire On The Mountain\r\nGeorge McCorkle\/Marshall Tucker Band\r\n \r\n \r\n[Intro]\r\n| G<\/span>   | D<\/span>   | Am<\/span>  | C<\/span> | G<\/span>   |\r\n| Em<\/span>  | Em<\/span>  | C<\/span>   | C<\/span>   | x2\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\nEm<\/span>                           C<\/span>\r\n  Took my family away from my Carolina home\r\nEm<\/span>                             C<\/span>\r\n  Had dreams about the West and started to roam\r\nEm<\/span>                     C<\/span>\r\n  Six long months on a dust covered trail\r\nEm<\/span>                                     C<\/span>\r\n  They say heaven's at the end, but so far it's been hell\r\n \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n           G<\/span>                      D<\/span>\r\nAnd there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air\r\nAm<\/span>                            C<\/span>              Em<\/span>    C<\/span>  Em<\/span>  C<\/span>\r\n  Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\nEm<\/span>                           C<\/span>\r\n  We were diggin' and siftin' from five to five\r\n\r\nEm<\/span>                            C<\/span>\r\n  Sellin' everything we found just to stay alive\r\nEm<\/span>                          C<\/span>\r\n  Gold flowed free like the whiskey in the bars\r\nEm<\/span>                                    C<\/span>\r\n  Sinnin' was the big thing, Lord, and Satan was the star\r\n \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n           G<\/span>                      D<\/span>\r\nAnd there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air\r\nAm<\/span>                            C<\/span>              Em<\/span>    C<\/span>  Em<\/span>  C<\/span>\r\n  Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there\r\n \r\n \r\n[Instrumental]\r\n| G<\/span>   | D<\/span>   | Am<\/span>  | C<\/span> | G<\/span>   |\r\n| G<\/span>   | D<\/span>   | Am<\/span>  | C<\/span> |\r\n| Em<\/span>  | C<\/span>   | Em<\/span>  | C<\/span>   |\r\n| Em<\/span>  | C<\/span>   | Em<\/span>  | C<\/span>   |\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\nEm                         C\r\n  Dance hall girls were the evenin' treat\r\nEm                                     C\r\n  Empty cartridges and blood lined the gutters of the street\r\nEm                          C\r\n  Men were shot down for the sake of fun\r\nEm                                  C\r\n  Or just to hear the noise of their forty four guns\r\n \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n           G                      D\r\nAnd there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air\r\nAm                            C              Em    C  Em  C\r\n  Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 4]\r\nEm                 C\r\n  Now my widow, she weeps by my grave\r\nEm                           C\r\n  Tears flow free for her man she couldn't save\r\nEm                             C\r\n  Shot down in cold blood by a gun that carried fame\r\nEm                              C\r\n  All for a useless and no good, worthless claim\r\n \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n           G                      D\r\nAnd there's fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air\r\nAm                            C              G\r\n  Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there\r\n \r\nG                      D\r\n Fire on the mountain, lightnin' in the air\r\nAm                            C              Em\r\n  Gold in them hills and it's waitin' for me there\r\nC                 G\r\n   Waitin' for me there...\r\n
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Fire On The Mountain George McCorkle\/Marshall Tucker Band [Intro] | G | D | Am | C | G | | Em | Em | C | C | x2 [Verse 1] Em C Took my family away from my Carolina home Em C Had dreams about the West and … CLICK TO VIEW SONGFire on the Mountain<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29178,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29177\/revisions\/29178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}