GCGC
Pretty as an angel from the day that she was born
GCGD
Skin as fair as Lily's hair, as golden as the corn
GCGC
They knew that she was special from the moment she first cried
GCDG
She was a mountain angel certified
GCGC
She was her momma's baby, she was her daddy's pride
GCGC
Good at home, at church and school, at everything she tried
GCGC
Everybody's darlin' led a charmed and peaceful life
GCDG
The perfect mountain angel 'til he arrived
GCG
And ohh, she fell so deeply
GCG
Ooooh, she couldn't stop
GCGC
She gave herself to him, milled it completely
GCDG
He lifted her so high he let her drop
GCGC
She gave up everything for him that mattered in her life
GCGD
All the others that had loved her and she vowed to be his wife
GCGC
She dreamed of bearing children in an ivy-covered house
GCDG
The mountain angel's sunshine turned to clouds
GCGC
The wicked handsome stranger left the way he came
GC
Broke her heart and broke her mind
GD
She never was the same
EmC
They say he was the devil
GC
That had come to steal her soul
GCDG
She never loved another it was told
GC
They say she had a baby
GC
Some say that it had died
GC
They it's just as well
GD
As it had been the devil's child
GC
They say good conquers evil
GC
But here, evil won the prize
GCDG
So the mountain angel took to the wild
GCG
And ooh, she couldn't take it
GCG
Years passed and she had long since lost her mind
GCGC
She waited for him as her beauty faded
GCDG
Her parents died from grief before their time
GCGC
She tried to gather pieces of her life, they wouldn't fit
GCGD
Beside the tiny grave deep in the woods is where she'd sit
GCGC
Talking to the child, herself, to him, who knew for sure
GCDG
Possessed they say by satan's insane lure
GCGC
High a'top the mountain, for years they say she's seen
GCGD
Looking down upon the town where she had once been queen
GCGC
She'd sneak around the playground, watch the little children play
GCDG
They'd see the crazy lady then run away
GCGC
They say she roamed these hills for years, wearing not a stitch
GCGD
The lovely mountain angel now thought to be a witch
GC
She made those wailing mournful sounds
GC
That you could hear for miles
GCDG
Long after she laid down upon her baby's grave and died
GCG
And ooh, her ghost is callin'
GCG
She's waiting for the ones that she adored
GCG
Through spring and summer, fall when snow is fallin'
GCDG
Her spirit roams these hills forever more
GCDG
The mountain angel's voices ever more
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.