Chords with lyrics
🎸 Intro:
C majorC FF C/EC/E DmDm C majorC
🎸 Verse 1:
A minorAm E/Ab
She'll be the color of the big muddy
FF C majorC
Green as a burial mound
FF C majorC DmDm E MajorE
Gold like stars twinkling on a sleepy little delta town
C majorC Bb majorBb
In the middle put a big magnolia
FF F minorFm
Raise her up from the capitol ground
C majorC FF C majorC
When the brand new Mississippi flag goes flying
🎸 Verse 2:
A minorAm E/Ab
She'll have a diamond for Elvis
FF C majorC
Eudora Welty lines
FF C majorC DmDm E MajorE
Railroad dust for the brakemen singing Blue Yodel #9
C majorC Bb majorBb
She'll have a stripe for Robert Johnson
FF F minorFm
And one for Charlie Pride
C majorC FF
When the brand new Mississippi flag
C majorC FF
When the brand new Mississippi flag
C majorC FF C majorC
When the brand new Mississippi flag goes flying
🎸 Chorus:
A minorAm E/Ab
And she can take the wind or a hurricane
Gsus4Gsus4 D/F#D/F#
Rattling chains and all the pain
FF G+G C majorC
And still she stands and proudly she waves
A minorAm E/Ab
Yes, and it's high time that she honors all
Gsus4Gsus4 D/F#D/F#
The ones that justice never called
FF G+G
And all her sons and daughters who died on the road to change
🎸 Instrumental:
C majorC FF C majorC FF
C majorC FF C/EC/E DmDm C majorC
🎸 Verse 3:
A minorAm E/Ab
She'll be the color of the big muddy
FF C majorC
For the river that gave her life
FF C majorC DmDm E MajorE
And carried us to the crossroads of doing wrong and making right
C majorC Bb majorBb FF F minorFm
I love you Mississippi and I won't be ashamed to cry
C majorC FF
When the brand new Mississippi flag
C majorC FF
When the brand new Mississippi flag
C majorC FF C majorC
When the brand new Mississippi flag goes flying