Leonard Calhoun chords by Adam Calhoun

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

🎸 Intro:
C majorC C


🎸 Verse 1:
E minorEm      D MajorD
Hard workin', hard hands
C majorC                D MajorD
Sweatin' like the devil with my farmer's tan
E minorEm         D MajorD
My grandfather said Chop that wood
   C majorC             D MajorD
Don't cuss at your mama, boy you got to be good
E minorEm      D MajorD
Life goes by fast take it slow
C majorC                 D MajorD
One day you're young and the next day you're old
      E minorEm           D MajorD
He used to tell me all this at our fishin' hole
     C majorC              D MajorD
I used to carry all his tackle and his fishin' pole

🎸 Chorus:
        G+G        C majorC
I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me
G+G             D MajorD
When I was just a boy I'd sit on his knee
    G+G     C majorC
He said Son let me tell you about
  D MajorD        C majorC      G+G
The south and how it goes around here
        G+G        C majorC
I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me
G+G             D MajorD
When I was just a boy I'd sit on his knee
    G+G     C majorC
He said Son let me tell you about
  D MajorD        C majorC      G+G
The south and how it goes around here


🎸 Verse:
E minorEm              D MajorD
My daddy wasn't there but the old man was
  C majorC             D MajorD
He taught me how to fish, he taught me to hunt
  E minorEm           D MajorD
And if I got bored he said whittle some wood
   C majorC            D MajorD
Or go take that ol' dog go get lost in the woods
E minorEm              D MajorD
I stay up all night and just sit on the porch
      C majorC             D MajorD
He used to tell me stories about when he was a boy
E minorEm                D MajorD
He grew up down the hollar at the end of Lick Fork
   C majorC          D MajorD
In a little old cabin and they were so poor
E minorEm            D MajorD
He started workin' at the age of 10
  C majorC             D MajorD
He left school and never went back again
       E minorEm          D MajorD
I'll tell ya, old boy could swing a hammer and an axe
     C majorC               D MajorD
And when times get tough, you'd get the shirt off his back

🎸 Chorus:
        G+G        C majorC
I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me
   G+G          D MajorD
When I was just a boy I'd sit on his knee
    G+G     C majorC
He said Son let me tell you about
  D MajorD        C majorC      G+G
The south and how it goes around here
        G+G        C majorC
I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me
   G+G          D MajorD
When I was just a boy I'd sit on his knee
    G+G     C majorC
He said Son let me tell you about
  D MajorD        C majorC      G+G
The south and how it goes around here


🎸 Verse:
E minorEm       D MajorD
I'm older, and he's gone now
C majorC         D MajorD
But I never forgot what we talked about
E minorEm           D MajorD
My grandfather told me stand up proud
     C majorC               D MajorD
Don't you ever start a fight, but don't ever back down
  E minorEm    D MajorD
No, no, and I miss him so
  C majorC           D MajorD
It tears up my heart, it rips my soul
  E minorEm               D MajorD
Now looking down the ridge where we used to go
   C majorC             D MajorD
I can still hear his voice and I know he knows


🎸 Chorus:
        G+G        C majorC
I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me
   G+G          D MajorD
When I was just a boy I'd sit on his knee
    G+G     C majorC
He said Son let me tell you about
  D MajorD        C majorC      G+G
The south and how it goes around here
        G+G        C majorC
I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me
   G+G          D MajorD
When I was just a boy I'd sit on his knee
    G+G     C majorC
He said Son let me tell you about
  D MajorD        C majorC      G+G
The south and how it goes around here