Decoration Day chords by Jason Isbell

Chords with lyrics

Decoration Day Live version from "Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Live From Alabama":
Drive By Truckers version, tuned down 1 step (DGCFAD)
Isbell's "Live From Alabama" version, standard tuning (EADGBE)

6/4 time

Intro:
| C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | G+G G/BG/B | A minorAm |

Verse 1:
C majorC      C/BC/B    A minorAm Am/E
. It's Decoration Day . .
C majorC      C/BC/B      A minorAm      Am/E
. And I've a mind to roll a stone on his grave
C majorC      C/BC/B   A minorAm Am/E
. What would he say? . .
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He'd say, "Keepin' me down, boy, won't keep you away"

Verse 2:
C majorC      C/BC/B    A minorAm Am/E
. It's Decoration Day . .
  C majorC     C/BC/B       A minorAm      Am/E
And I knew the Hill boys would put him away .
  C majorC   C/BC/B   A minorAm  Am/E
My Daddy wasn't afraid .
      G+G       G/BG/B      A minorAm
Said, "We'd fight 'til the last Lawson's last livin' day"

Verse 3:
   C majorC    C/BC/B     A minorAm   Am/E
Well, I never knew how it all got started
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. Problem with Holland before we were born
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And I don't know the name of the boy we tied down
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And we beat 'til he just couldn't walk anymore

Verse 4:
  C majorC     C/BC/B   A minorAm     Am/E
But I know the caliber in Daddy's chest
 C majorC      C/BC/B     A minorAm   Am/E
I know what Holland Hill drives .
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The state let him go so I guess it was best
    G+G   G/BG/B     A minorAm
'Cause nobody needs all us Lawsons alive

Break 1:
| G+G G/BG/B | A minorAm | E minorEm | E minorEm | E minorEm | E minorEm |

Verse 5:
  C majorC     C/BC/B    A minorAm      Am/E
My Daddy said one of the boys had come by
  C majorC      C/BC/B   A minorAm Am/E
The lumber man's favorite son .
     C majorC       C/BC/B      A minorAm      Am/E
He said, “Beat him real good but don't dare let him die”
    G+G    G/BG/B     A minorAm
And if you see Holland Hill run

Verse 6:
   C majorC       C/BC/B      A minorAm     Am/E
Well, I said, “They ain't give us trouble no more
   C majorC        C/BC/B    A minorAm   Am/E
That we ain't brought down on ourselves” .
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But a chain on my back and my ear to the floor
     G+G      G/BG/B     A minorAm
And I'll send all the Hill Boys to hell
   G+G      G/BG/B     A minorAm  | E minorEm | E minorEm | E minorEm | E minorEm |
I'll send all the Hill boys to hell

Break 2:
| C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | G+G G/BG/B | A minorAm Am/E |
| C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | G+G G/BG/B | A minorAm Am/E |
| C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | G+G G/BG/B | A minorAm Am/E |
| C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | G+G G/BG/B | A minorAm |

Verse 7:
C majorC      C/BC/B    A minorAm Am/E
. It's Decoration Day . .
  C majorC    C/BC/B    A minorAm     Am/E
And I've got family in Mobile Bay .
      C majorC       C/BC/B      A minorAm Am/E
They ain't never seen my Daddy's grave . .
   G+G      G/BG/B     A minorAm
That don't bother me, it ain't marked anyway

Verse 8:
    C majorC     C/BC/B     A minorAm     Am/E
'Cause I got dead brothers in Lauderdale south
  C majorC     C/BC/B     A minorAm  Am/E
And I got dead brothers in east Tennessee
  C majorC     C/BC/B      A minorAm      Am/E
My Daddy got shot right in front of his house
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He had no one to fall on but me

Verse 9:
C majorC      C/BC/B    A minorAm Am/E
. It's Decoration Day . .
  C majorC   C/BC/B    A minorAm     Am/E
And I've a mind to go spit on his grave
  C majorC    C/BC/B      A minorAm    Am/E
If I was a Hill, I'd have put him away
    G+G       G/BG/B      A minorAm
And I'd fight 'til the last Lawson's last livin' day
  G+G       G/BG/B      A minorAm
I'd fight 'til the last Lawson's last livin' day
  G+G       G/BG/B      A minorAm     A minorAm
I'd fight 'til the last Lawson's last livin' day

Outro:
| C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | G+G G/BG/B | A minorAm Am/E |
| C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | G+G G/BG/B | A minorAm Am/E |
| C majorC G+G  | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC C/BC/B | A minorAm Am/E | C majorC G+G  | A minorAm Am/E | G+G G/BG/B | A minorAm Am/E |