Last Mountain - joneworlds@mailbox.org - Rhythm is a triple, 3/8 or 6/8 time I guess. - 12 beats per line, 4 groups of 3 beats - downstrum on 1st beat of 3, then down-up on the other 2. - Dum, dugga dugga / Dum, dugga dugga / Dum, dugga dugga / Dum, dugga dugga 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 from dusty days 'ere the world was broken Am C G Am castles forgotten and tongues never spoken Am C G Am today, 'tween the river and coast of the sea, Am C G Am some things must lay in the past where they be G G Em Am C Am C ... (refrain) buying crowns that should still be forgotten, D Am C G deep in woods that shall never be trodden D Am C G again, we will carry the embers to fountains D Am C G and bury the shards by the roots of Last Mountain G G Em Am far in the north with the ruins they dwell, they scrabble a living keeping hoods drawn and swords sharp until restoration of a name seldom whispered, rumored return to the lands that are conquered those who are shunned will again be respected, to regain the realm, be it never neglected again to be claimed by the creeping black shadows that snarl in the hillocks and darken the meadows lost in the halls that the knights could not sunder, treasure uncounted in rooms that are under the sea, worlds broken from the terrible battle, the legends diminished to splinters and chattel some that still linger hide up in the highlands, biding their time looking west to an island at sea, build a ship cross the waters they must, to leave mem'ries of ancients to crumble to dust that which remains must be hidden from hands that seek to restore all the terror and fear to the lands, on we trek through the trees and the hills so the world may never be bent to their wills silver so tarnished, the gold so unpolished we carry the trinkets of realms not abolished forever, the sword of the soldiers of old whose malice condemned us for ages untold