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Foggy Mountain Top

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs

Written by A.P. Carter

Key of G · Chords: I IV V

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Verse 1

G                C              G
If I was on some foggy mountain top
                     D7
I'd sail away to the west
    G                    C          G
I'd sail all around this whole wide world
              D7       G
To the girl I love the best

Verse 2

                     C          G
If I had listened to what momma said
                           D7
I would not have been here today
  G                 C        G
A lying around this old jail-house
             D7         G
A weeping my sweet life away

Verse 1

G                C              G
If I was on some foggy mountain top
                     D7
I'd sail away to the west
    G                    C          G
I'd sail all around this whole wide world
              D7       G
To the girl I love the best

Verse 3

                     C       G
Oh when you see that girl of mine
                                D7
There’s something you must tell her
    G                C        G
She need not to fool no time away
              D7       G
To court some other fellow

Verse 1

G                C              G
If I was on some foggy mountain top
                     D7
I'd sail away to the west
    G                    C          G
I'd sail all around this whole wide world
              D7       G
To the girl I love the best