Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones chords by Eric Church

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:

D  A  G      A D     A G     A D


Verse:

D      A       G
Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones
G             A    D
Spelled with all 4 y's
    D       A  G
Was born in 70-something
               G            A        D
Between "Sweet Home" & "You Got That Right"
    D    A       G
His mama met his daddy
     G     A     D
At a Tallahassee show
    D         A
But just like Tuesday
G                      A        D
Daddy wound up gone on down the road

Chorus:
D      A       Bm
Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones
A           G        A  D
Hailed from Gadsden, Alabama
D       A     Bm
Born to carry on
A       G    A     D
Who his mama was a fan of
D         A     Bm
Don't ask me no questions
A     G          A      Bm
And I won't tell you no lies
       G               D
That's what she always told him
         G        A       D    A  G     A  D
Right up till the day she died


Verse:
D      A      G
Lynyrd wasn't black or white
       G         A    D
He was somewhere in between
           D        A      G
Throw in, abandoned and confused
                G                 A        D
And you get the blues when you're just thirteen
     D        A      G
Well he found his salvation
     G         A         D
In a pawn shop bought guitar
          D          A       G
You can't teach that kind of pickin'
            G          A         D
It's got to come right from your heart


Chorus:
D      A       Bm
Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones
A           G        A  D
Hailed from Gadsden, Alabama
D       A     Bm
Born to carry on
A       G    A     D
Who his mama was a fan of
D         A     Bm
Don't ask me no questions
A     G          A      Bm
And I won't tell you no lies
       G               D
That's what she always told him
         G        A       D    A  Bm  A  G  A  D
Right up till the day she died


Post-Chorus:
D   A   Bm  A   G   A   D
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

G    A D


Verse:
     D      A       G
When Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones'
G    A       D
Mama passed away
  D          A          G
A dressed in all black, black man
      G         A       D
Stood up in the back to say
     D         A         G
Been thinking about your mama
           G     A     Bm
Since that Tallahassee show
     G      D       Em
Yeah son, I am your daddy
D      G       A      D
And my name is Curtis Lowe


Outro:
D   A   Bm  A   G   A   D
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
D   A   Bm  A   G   A   D
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh