Let There Be Rock chords by Drive-by Truckers

Tuning: D Tuning (D G C F A D)

Key: F

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 and C/B chord.

Intro:

G D A 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       D
My buddy Gene was driving
     A       G    D  A  G
he just barely turned sixteen
     G         D
And I'd like to say, "I'm sorry"
    A       G
but we lived to tell about it
    G       D        A       G
And we lived to do a whole bunch more crazy, stupid shit

Chorus:

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

[Interlude

G D A G (x2)

Verse 2:

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

Chorus:

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

[Interlude

G D A G (x2)

Verse 3:

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

Chorus:

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

Outro:

G D A G (x7)

G D C C/B C C/B C