Cornbread Wedding Cake Live chords by Ashley McBryde

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

Key: BB

Tuning: Standard

🎸 Intro:

G+G G MajorG


🎸 Verse :

G+G
Way down south where the garden grows
   C majorC
In a country church so the story goes
 D MajorD
A augmentedA couple tied the knot forever
    C majorC
Didn't have two nickels to rub together

🎸 Verse :

  G+G
But mamma was good at making do
C majorC
Something borrowed something blue
 D MajorD
A augmentedA cotton dress she sewed herself
  C majorC
And after that there

wasn't too much left

🎸 Chorus:

      G+G
So they had corn-bread wedding cake
   C majorC
Same recipe her grandma made
  D MajorD
In home-made love it was baked
   C majorC
They talk about it to this day
D MajorD
Bless their heart for goodness' sake
      G+G  C majorC   D MajorD    G+G
They had a corn-bread wedding cake

🎸 Verse :

  G+G
The song was by some local fella
C majorC
No piano just a-capella
  D MajorD
The preacher's voice

like a distant thunder
    C majorC
Saying let no man put asunder


🎸 Verse :

G+G
Not one dry eye in the house
  C majorC
For two young lovers starting out
   D MajorD
They passed the plate at the

Church of Christ
C majorC
Somebody sprung for a bag of rice

🎸 Chorus:

     G+G
They had corn-bread wedding cake
   C majorC
Same recipe her grandma made
  D MajorD
In home-made love it was baked
   C majorC
They talk about it to this day
D MajorD
Bless their heart for goodness' sake
      G+G  C majorC   D MajorD    G+G
They had a corn-bread wedding cake

🎸 Outro:

   C majorC
Same recipe her grandma made
  D MajorD
In home-made love it was baked
   C majorC
They talk about it to this day
D MajorD
Bless their heart for goodness' sake
     G+G  C majorC   D MajorD    G+G
And have corn-bread wedding cake
D MajorD
Bless their heart for goodness' sake
     G+G  C majorC   D MajorD    G+G
And have corn-bread wedding cake


Chords used in song:
G+G
C majorC
D MajorD