Snake Mountain Blues Chords

KeyD Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays450

Snake Mountain Blues by Colter Wall is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords D, G, F, A and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Verse 
D 
Hey mister 10 dollar man 
D 
Let me tell where you're bound 
G 
Drink your green liquour lord 
G                      D 
You roll to the ground 

Verse 
D 
Well you come around here 
D 
With your money and your hat 
G 
Taste of my woman 
G                           D 
Well you die where you stand 

D 
Well the Snake Mountain Blues 
G           D 
Got me down low 
            G 
And I could die in the morning 
G                      D 
Ain't no one would know 

Verse 
D 
Well my woman she'd come around 
D 
And my body she'd find 
G 
Go down Dundee... 
G              D 
Have her a time 

Instrumental Break 
D G G F D 

Verse 
D 
My daddy lord he rides 
D 
On a long holy train 
G 
First winds of winter 
G                 D 
I'll see him again 

Bridge 
D 
And it's farewell to this yellow-headed 
G           D 
Misery I've known 
G 
Snake Mountain's calling... 
G          D 
Calling me home 

D 
Well the Snake Mountain Blues 
G           D 
Got me down low 
            G 
And I could die in the morning 
G                      D 
Ain't no one would know 

Outro 
D 
Well my woman she'd come around 
D 
And my body she'd find 
G 
Go down Dundee... 
G              D  A 
Have her a time 
           D 
Have her a time... 

Instrumental Outro 
C G F D 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante