Black Diamond Strings chords by Guy Clark

Black Diamond Strings
Guy Clark
Dublin Blues

Capo 2  key of B if you want to.


Chorus
 D
Black Diamond Strings
 A
Black Diamond Strings
      E
Drinkin? 1 W. Harper
        A
Playin? Black Diamond Strings
D

Black Diamond Strings
         A
Are like white flour and grits

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


Verse 1

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


Verse 2


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


Chorus

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

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


Verse 3


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


N/C
   (spoken) Causette told ?em both

Verse 4


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


Chorus

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

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