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Johnny Cash – She Came From The Mountains Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 8, 2026

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These are the chords for She Came From The Mountains by Johnny Cash on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

[Verse 1]
D                 Em
She came from the mountains
      A               D
Rocky Mountains eagle-high
                     Em
She's from where the mountains
A              D
lean up to the sky
                         Em
Now she's back among the Rockies
      A                 D
where mountain thunders cry
                          Em
Now the wind from off the mountains
A               D
wails a sad goodbye
 D                Em
Once in Colorado Springs at
        A               D
the foot of old Pike's Peak
                       Em
I met a Rocky Mountain girl
   A                     D
to my soul her heart let speak
                        Em
We went to tell her parents
    A                   D
and an old grandmother said
                        Em       A
If you'll leave these mountains girl
                          D
you'll wish that you were dead
D               Em
The next day I took her with me
      A            D
to my far-off Iowa home
                         Em
Way out on the flatlands where
    A                    D
the mountain winds don't moan
                          Em
Each footstep we took was happy
    A                   D
or at least it shoudn't been
                      Em
But I would find her listening for
 A                      D
that same lone mountain wind

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[Chorus]
D                 Em
She came from the mountains
      A               D
Rocky Mountains eagle-high
                     Em
She's from where the mountains
      A        D
lean up to the sky
                         Em
Now she's back among the Rockies
      A                 D
where mountain thunders cry
                          Em
Now the wind from off the mountains
A               D
wails a sad goodbye

[Verse 2]
D                  Em
Months passed as fast as antelopes
    A                     D
until one fatal dismal dawn
                             Em
I walked to see morning sun shine
      A               D
down on where she was gone
                             Em
I'd known that lately she'd been
     A                       D
sad women sometimes get that way
                             Em
I hadn't guessed how much was
            A          D
wrong until that fatal day
 D                Em
She had left the weeping letter
       A                D
homesick with mountain names
                           Em
She was somewhere in the Rockies
    A                  D
and I knew I'd been to blame
                           Em
So now in Colorado Springs I
      A              D
wait near old Pike's Peak
                           Em
Where once I met a mountain
         A               D
girl that mountain girl I seek

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[Chorus]
D                 Em
She came from the mountains
      A               D
Rocky Mountains eagle-high
                     Em
She's from where the mountains
A              D
lean up to the sky
                         Em
Now she's back among the Rockies
      A                 D
where mountain thunders cry
                          Em
Now the wind from off the mountains
A               D
wails a sad goodbye

How to play She Came From The Mountains: key, chords and progression

She Came From The Mountains by Johnny Cash is in the key of D major (two sharps: F♯, C♯). The song uses 3 chords: D, Em and A.

The progression the song keeps returning to is D – Em – A – D (I – ii – V – I in D major). In solfa, that is doh – reh – soh – doh. Learn these 4 changes first and most of the song falls into place.

Beginner-friendly: every chord is an open chord on guitar, so you can play it without a capo or barre chords.