I Hope It Rains At My Funeral Chords by Charley Crockett

I Hope It Rains At My Funeral by Charley Crockett

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Key: C

🎸 Intro: 

| C  | C  |




🎸 Verse 1:
   C             F                  C
A man with forty acres plowed and planted
     G                                       C
Can't send no fourteen year old boy to no school
                  F                      C
The only thing I learned in the years I worked on my daddy's farm
     G                                               C
Was son, you better get them crops in when it turns cool


🎸 Verse 2:
                     F              C
In the magazines
I saw the pretty women
   G                                C
I heard about the drinkin' and the bars
                      F                 C
If my daddy could've caught me, he'd a-killed me
           G                                           C
He said, "You might run, boy, but you ain't gonna get far"
🎸 Verse 3:
             F                     C
I hit town, you might say that it hit me
      G                                      C
Next mornin' there were things I knew more about
                           F              C
The woman who had taken me in she said, "Country boy, you're all right"
     G                                      C
The same way I turned her on, she turned me out


🎸 Verse 4:
                      F                 C
The first law I broke, right away they got me
   G                                         C
I helped them build the country roads for awhile
                         F             C
They fed me two times a day and they knocked me down about four
      G                                 C     A
For thirty days I didn't even crack a smile


🎸 Verse 5:
   D                    G                 D
I met a nice girl and she said I was her baby
            A                           D
She let me go and would never tell me why
                          G               D
I learned what it means to be somebody's baby
      A                                        D
They let you lie in your bed by yourself and cry


🎸 Verse 6:
     D                       G                     D
The miles were good but the mileage is turnin' my hair gray
      A                                         D
I've met some people that knew me and call me friend
                G                      D
Ain't no sense wantin' my life to live over
     A                                           D
I'd find different ways to make those mistakes again


🎸 Outro: 
                     G                        D
So let me say this
I never tried to hurt anybody
           A                                                    D
Though I guess there's a few, that I still couldn't look in the eye
                     G                       D
If I've got one wish
I hope it rains at my funeral
    A                                     D
For once
I'd like to be the only one dry

I Hope It Rains At My Funeral Chords Info

I Hope It Rains At My Funeral Chords by Charley Crockett
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Difficulty: Beginner πŸ‘Ά
Chords: C, F, A, G, D