Black Diamond Strings chords by Guy Clark

Chords with lyrics

Black Diamond Strings
Guy Clark
Dublin Blues

Capo 2 key of BB if you want to.


Chorus
 D MajorD
Black Diamond Strings
 A augmentedA
Black Diamond Strings
   E MajorE
Drinkin? 1 W. Harper
    A augmentedA
Playin? Black Diamond Strings
D MajorD
Black Diamond Strings
     A augmentedA
Are like white flour and grits

You play Black Diamond Strings
      E MajorE      A augmentedA
?Cause it?s all you can get

Verse 1

 A augmentedA             D MajorD    A augmentedA
Black Diamond Strings on a Catalog Guitar
              E MajorE     A augmentedA
That?s pretty high cotton whoever you are
                    D MajorD     A augmentedA
You break one you change one, that?s as good as it gets
                E MajorE      A augmentedA
You can play all year long on two or three sets


Verse 2


A augmentedA         D MajorD     A augmentedA
J.W. Crowell was a hell of a man
                 E MajorE     A augmentedA
He played two nights a week in a hillbilly band
               D MajorD     A augmentedA
He played at the Ice House on Telephone Road
               E MajorE      A augmentedA
He played in the yard just to lighten his load

Chorus

 D MajorD
Black Diamond Strings
 A augmentedA
Black Diamond Strings
   E MajorE
Drinkin? 1 W. Harper
    A augmentedA
Playin? Black Diamond Strings
D MajorD
Black Diamond Strings
     A augmentedA
Are like white flour and grits

You play Black Diamond Strings
      E MajorE      A augmentedA
?Cause it?s all you can get


Verse 3


A augmentedA    D MajorD     A augmentedA
Hey J.W play that Frauline
             E MajorE       A augmentedA
Let Rodney sit in, hell, he?s goin? on nine
                  D MajorD      A augmentedA
His fingers are bleedin?, but he?s keepin? good time
                E MajorE        A augmentedA
Playin? Black Diamond Strings, he?ll never quit tryin?


N/C
  (spoken) Causette told ?em both

Verse 4


A augmentedA          D MajorD        A augmentedA
You boys pack it up, it?s time to go home
                  E MajorE     A augmentedA
We got church in the mornin?, it?s comin? up dawn
           D MajorD      A augmentedA
Don?t make me say it again or I?m gone
                E MajorE         A augmentedA
You can stay here forever, but you?re gonna walk home


Chorus

 D MajorD
Black Diamond Strings
 A augmentedA
Black Diamond Strings
   E MajorE
Drinkin? 1 W. Harper
    A augmentedA
Playin? Black Diamond Strings
D MajorD
Black Diamond Strings
     A augmentedA
Are like white flour and grits

You play Black Diamond Strings
      E MajorE      A augmentedA
?Cause it?s all you can get