Decoration Day chords by Jason Isbell

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 C/B | Am Am/E | C C/B | Am Am/E | C C/B | Am Am/E | G G/B | Am |

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

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

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

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

Break 1:
| G G/B | Am | Em | Em | Em | Em |

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

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

Break 2:
| C C/B | Am Am/E | C C/B | Am Am/E | C C/B | Am Am/E | G G/B | Am Am/E |
| C C/B | Am Am/E | C C/B | Am Am/E | C C/B | Am Am/E | G G/B | Am Am/E |
| C C/B | Am Am/E | C C/B | Am Am/E | C C/B | Am Am/E | G G/B | Am Am/E |
| C C/B | Am Am/E | C C/B | Am Am/E | C C/B | Am Am/E | G G/B | Am |

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

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

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

Outro:
| C C/B | Am Am/E | C C/B | Am Am/E | C C/B | Am Am/E | G G/B | Am Am/E |
| C C/B | Am Am/E | C C/B | Am Am/E | C C/B | Am Am/E | G G/B | Am Am/E |
| C G   | Am Am/E | C C/B | Am Am/E | C G   | Am Am/E | G G/B | Am Am/E |