Deford Rides Again chords by Old Crow Medicine Show

Chords with lyrics

🎸 Intro:

G+G


🎸 Verse 1:
G+G
DeFord was a man from Castlewood
Tenn'
        D MajorD          G+G
Blowed on that harp both night and day

How he wailed on them reeds 'til his lips would bleed
         D MajorD      G+G
Played 'til the Lord knows when
    D MajorD
Just a little baby boy with a silver toy
And the polio strikin' fire and wind
At four foot nine, just one of his kind
   G+G
The greatest there ever been

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC      G+G
Blow, blow
DeFord, blow
C majorC          D MajorD
Play that Pan-American
G+G  FF   D MajorD      G+G
Oh, oh, where did he go?
D MajorD           G+G
DeFord Bailey rides again

🎸 Verse 2:
G+G
 Arise, gals and gents, for the show to commence
            D MajorD      G+G
There's a good-nature riot on the air
     G+G
Little DeFord's on the loose with them Muscle Shoals Blues
         D MajorD     G+G
Let the Jim Crow South beware
     D MajorD
Like the fox chasin' game
He was black balled and shamed
Stripped out the silver from his hand
Now, it's welfare lines and a dollar shine
        G+G
Singin', "Oh
Lord, ain't I a man "

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC      G+G
Blow, blow
DeFord, blow
C majorC          D MajorD
Play that Pan-American
G+G  FF   D MajorD      G+G
Oh, oh, where did he go?
D MajorD           G+G
DeFord Bailey rides again

🎸 Instrumental:
C majorC G+G C majorC D MajorD G+G FF D MajorD G+G D MajorD G+G

🎸 Bridge:
Then he played his last note, in The Banner they wrote
"Must have been those Ice Water Blues"
Now, up in Greenwood you'll find a plot, four foot nine
For our city's biggest shame, they whitewashed his name
                  G+G
For that kind of sin, there ain't no excuse

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC      G+G
Blow, blow
DeFord, blow
C majorC          D MajorD
Play that Pan-American
G+G  FF   D MajorD      G+G
Oh, oh, where did he go?
D MajorD           G+G
DeFord Bailey rides again
C majorC      G+G
Blow, blow
DeFord, blow
C majorC          D MajorD
Play that Pan-American
G+G  FF   D MajorD      G+G
Oh, oh, where did he go?
D MajorD           G+G
DeFord Bailey rides again
D MajorD           G+G
DeFord Bailey rides again
D MajorD    FF        G+G
DeFord Bailey rides again