Let There Be Rock chords by Drive-by Truckers

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: D MajorD Tuning (D MajorD G+G C majorC FF A augmentedA D MajorD)

Key: FF

Difficulty: Novice

Tune one whole step down to play along with the record (DGCFAD).

Open or barre chords both work. Same three-chord progression the entire song.
Super easy, just crank the distortion!

The lick at the very end is just a simple hammer on and off between an open C majorC and C/BC/B chord.

Intro:

G+G D MajorD A augmentedA G+G (x2)

Verse 1:

N.C.
Dropped acid, Blue Oyster Cult concert, fourteen years old
N.C.
And I thought them lasers were a spider chasing me
N.C.
On my way home, got pulled over in Rogersville Alabama
N.C.
With a half-ounce of weed and a case of Sterling Big Mouth
  G+G       D MajorD
My buddy Gene was driving
     A augmentedA       G+G    D MajorD  A augmentedA  G+G
he just barely turned sixteen
     G+G         D MajorD
And I'd like to say, "I'm sorry"
    A augmentedA       G+G
but we lived to tell about it
    G+G       D MajorD        A augmentedA       G+G
And we lived to do a whole bunch more crazy, stupid shit

Chorus:

    G+G        D MajorD
And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd
    A augmentedA        G+G
but I sure saw Molly Hatchet
   G+G  D MajorD        A augmentedA     G+G
With .38 Special and the Johnny Van Zant Band

[Interlude

G+G D MajorD A augmentedA G+G (x2)

Verse 2:

G+G      D MajorD      A augmentedA        G+G
When I was seventeen, I drank a fifth of vodka
    G+G     D MajorD        A augmentedA      G+G
On an empty stomach, then drove over to a friend's house
    G+G        D MajorD
And I backed my car between
       A augmentedA        G+G
his parents' Cadillacs without a scratch
   G+G       D MajorD      A augmentedA           G+G
Then crawled to the backdoor and slithered through the mail hole
    G+G      D MajorD
And I sneaked up them stairs
   A augmentedA      G+G
and puked in the toilet
       G+G        D MajorD
And I passed out and nearly drowned
         A augmentedA         G+G
but his sister, Deedee, pulled me out

Chorus:

    G+G        D MajorD
And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd
    A augmentedA        G+G
but I sure saw Molly Hatchet
     G+G       D MajorD
And the band that I was in
       A augmentedA       G+G
played "The Boys are Back in Town"

[Interlude

G+G D MajorD A augmentedA G+G (x2)

Verse 3:

G+G    D MajorD        A augmentedA       G+G
Skynyrd was set to play Huntsville, Alabama
    G+G      D MajorD
In the spring of '77
     A augmentedA         G+G    D MajorD  A augmentedA  G+G
I had a ticket but it got cancelled
     G+G        D MajorD
And the show, it was rescheduled
     A augmentedA     G+G        D MajorD  A augmentedA  G+G
for the "Street Survivors Tour"
     G+G       D MajorD    A augmentedA    G+G
And the rest, as they say, is history

Chorus:

   G+G            D MajorD
So I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd
    A augmentedA        G+G
but I sure saw Ozzy Osbourne
   G+G        D MajorD
With Randy Rhoads in '82
     A augmentedA          G+G
Right before that plane crash
    G+G            D MajorD
And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd
    A augmentedA      G+G
but I sure saw AC/DC
   G+G     D MajorD
With Bon Scott singing
A augmentedA       G+G
Let There Be Rock tour
   G+G     D MajorD
With Bon Scott singing
A augmentedA       G+G
Let There Be Rock tour
   G+G     D MajorD
With Bon Scott singing
 A augmentedA          G+G
"LET THERE BE ROCK!"

Outro:

G+G D MajorD A augmentedA G+G (x7)

G+G D MajorD C majorC C/BC/B C majorC C/BC/B C majorC