No Country Music For Old Men tab by The Bellamy Brothers
Intro
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
♫ Intro:
C
They told him to just fade away,
F G C
His time had past, and all his kind would die young
♫ Verse 1:
C F
But he remembers when Hank played the Opry, high as a kite
G C
While Patsy Cline was out walkin' after midnight
C F
Well he saw the torch being passed from Lefty to Merle
F G C
Now there's so called successors, but it's hard to find a hero in this world
♫ Chorus:
C F
There ain't no country music for old men
G C
All of the good ones have died or just packed it in
C F
Now there's posers and losers and would-be outlaws who only know how to pretend
G C
But there ain't no country music for old men
♫ Verse 2:
C F
He was sittin' on a bar stool the first time he heard Jolene
F G C
A song by the prettiest angel he'd ever seen
C F
Back when Nashville was swingin' and makin' them deals
F G C
While Buck was out strollin' the streets of Bakersfield
♫ Chorus:
C F
There ain't no country music for old men
G C
All of the good ones have died or just packed it in
C F
Now there's posers and losers and would-be outlaws who only know how to pretend
G C
But there ain't no country music for old men
♫ Verse 3:
F C
Loretta and Conway, Jones and Tammy Wynette
C
Songs about prisons, passion and whiskey
F G A D
That's as good as it's ever gonna get (key change to D)
♫ Verse 4:
D G
They call him nostalgic with a permanent case of the blues
G D
He just walks around wonderin' who's gonna fill their shoes
D G
Lookin' back on the great ones we've lost, he says why so soon?
G A D
He shed an ocean of tears on the graves of Johnny and June
♫ Chorus:
D G
There ain't no country music for old men
A D
All of the good ones have died or just packed it in
D G
Now there's posers and losers and would-be outlaws who only know how to pretend
A D
But there ain't no country music for old men
A D
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