Brown-eyed Women chords by Hiss Golden Messenger

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
B minorBm            D MajorD
Gone are the days when the ox fall down,
A augmentedA                 G+G
You take up the yoke and plow the fields around.
B minorBm            D MajorD
Gone are the days when the ladies said, "Please,
G+G                  D MajorD
Gentle Jack Jones won't you come to me."

Chorus:
A augmentedA
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine,
  G+G            D MajorD     A augmentedA
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.
G+G               D MajorD      B minorBm
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down,
    E minorEm           G+G    D MajorD     D MajorD F#F# B minorBm
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on.

Verse 2:
B minorBm            D MajorD
1920 when he stepped to the bar,
A augmentedA                 G+G
Drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar.
B minorBm            D MajorD
1930 when the wall caved in,
G+G                  D MajorD
He paid his way selling red-eyed gin.

Chorus:
A augmentedA
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine,
  G+G            D MajorD     A augmentedA
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.
G+G               D MajorD      B minorBm
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down,
    E minorEm           G+G    D MajorD
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on.

Verse 3:
B minorBm            D MajorD
Delilah Jones was the mother of twins,
A augmentedA                 G+G
Two times over and the rest were sins.
B minorBm            D MajorD
Raised eight boys, only I turned bad,
G+G                  D MajorD     D MajorD F#F# B minorBm
Didn't get the lickin's that the other ones had.

Chorus:
A augmentedA
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine,
  G+G            D MajorD     A augmentedA
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.
G+G               D MajorD      B minorBm
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down,
    E minorEm           G+G    D MajorD
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on.

Bridge:
A minorAm          G+G    D MajorD
Tumble down shack in Big Foot county.
A minorAm           G+G     D MajorD
Snowed so hard that the roof caved in.
B minorBm   A augmentedA       G+G    F# minorF#m
Delilah Jones went to meet her God,
    G+G              D MajorD     D MajorD F#F# B minorBm
And the old man never was the same again.

Verse 4:
B minorBm            D MajorD
Daddy made whiskey and he made it well.
A augmentedA            G+G
Cost two dollars and it burned like hell.
B minorBm          D MajorD
I cut hick'ry just to fire the still,
G+G                  D MajorD
Drink down a bottle and be ready to kill.

Chorus:
A augmentedA
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine,
  G+G            D MajorD     A augmentedA
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.
G+G               D MajorD      B minorBm
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down,
    E minorEm           G+G    D MajorD     D MajorD F#F# B minorBm
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on.

Verse 5:
B minorBm            D MajorD
Gone are the days when the ox fall down,
A augmentedA                 G+G
You take up the yoke and plow the fields around.
B minorBm            D MajorD
Gone are the days when the ladies said' "Please,
G+G                  D MajorD
Gentle Jack Jones won't you come to me."

Chorus:
A augmentedA
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine,
  G+G            D MajorD     A augmentedA
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.
G+G               D MajorD      B minorBm
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down,
    E minorEm           G+G    D MajorD
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on.
    E minorEm           G+G    D MajorD
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on.