Mountaintop Chords
by Dan Sultan
Mountaintop by Dan Sultan is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Am, Em, F, G, Dm, Dsus4, E7 and Fm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Tuning: Standard
The intro, verse and Chorus all uses some finger picking based around the same 4 chord progression.
Listen to the song to get a feel for the picking and timing, but generally he's hitting the root note
then the top two or three strings. I haven't shown the exact picking because he mixes it up a bit so
just play around with it.
Intro/Verse/Chorus chords:
C Am Em F
e|--3---3---3---0----|
B|--3---3---3---1----|
G|--0---0---0---2----|
D|--2---2---2---3----|
A|--3---0---2---3----|
E|----------0---1----|
Bridge chords:
G Am Dm Dsus4 E7 F Fm
e|--3---0---1---3----0---1---1---|
B|--3---1---3---2----0---1---1---|
G|--0---2---2---2----1---2---1---|
D|--0---2---0---0----0---3---3---|
A|--2---0------------2---3---3---|
E|--3----------------0---1---1---|
C Am Em F
I've been writing in the book that your mother gave me, last christmas
C Am Em F
I had to take another look over my shoulder, again
C Am
I climb up to the mountaintop
Em F
Climb up to the mountaintop
C Am Em F
And I'll walk across the valleys, for you.
C Am Em F
These lonely days and lonely nights, won't get no easier, with you
C Am Em F
There's a sea of faces under the streetlight, if only they knew
G Am Dm Am
From the bars to the backstreets, to the bars of a cave
Dsus4 E7 F Fm
They're as free as the birds, that'll sing them home to a new day
C Am Em F
Ooooooohhhhhhh oooooooohhhhhhh
C Am
I climb up to the mountaintop
Em F
Climb up to the mountaintop
C Am Em F
And I'll walk across the valleys, for you.
C Am Em F
Oh I climb, I'll climb
C Am Em F
I'll walk, I'll walk, with you
C Am Em F
I've been writing in the book that your mother gave me