Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Difficulty: Novice
Verse 1:
A augmentedA B minorBm
Virgil Lee was a mighty man
D MajorD A augmentedA
He could outrun the L&N
A augmentedA B minorBm
Caught a wild cat and made him his friend
D MajorD A augmentedA
He was a flat woods boy
A augmentedA B minorBm
Caught his learnin' from a runnin' brook
D MajorD A augmentedA
Taught him go with the flow and don't get hooked
A augmentedA B minorBm
But Virgil Lee kindly mistook
D MajorD A augmentedA
The devil for a dear friend
Pre-Chorus:
B minorBm
You can fool all the jokers with diamonds
C# minorC#m
You can playboy ramblin' roots
D MajorD
You can lie like a penny on the CNO line
E MajorE
But the good Lord knows the truth
Chorus:
A augmentedA B minorBm
Just like a old hickory
D MajorD A augmentedA
Shadin' the porch of a house that's been torn down
A augmentedA B minorBm
There ain't nothin' that's left but the memory
D MajorD A augmentedA
And that long, tall, scraggily, bitter nut old hickory
Verse 2:
A augmentedA B minorBm
It was Gainsboro at the Glow Worm Bar
D MajorD A augmentedA
We were passin' around a jug and a guitar
A augmentedA B minorBm
Virgil picked it like an Opry star
D MajorD A augmentedA
I mean the boy was on fire
A augmentedA B minorBm
I said, "Hey Virgil Lee, where'd you get that stuff "
D MajorD A augmentedA
He said, "I don't know, I guess I made it up "
A augmentedA B minorBm
Well sometimes an empty cup
D MajorD A augmentedA
Just overflows
Pre-Chorus:
B minorBm C# minorC#m
And all that summer was fire and rain
D MajorD
Virgil Lee started nursin' the pain
'Til every one of them songs he would play
E MajorE
Was twisted, falling down
Chorus:
A augmentedA B minorBm
Like a old hickory
D MajorD A augmentedA
Shadin' the porch of a house that's been torn down
A augmentedA B minorBm
There ain't nothin' that's left but the memory
D MajorD A augmentedA
And that long, tall, scraggily, bitter nut old hickory
Verse 3:
A augmentedA B minorBm
Laid him out in his overalls
D MajorD A augmentedA
'Cause when you get too big for your breeches well that's all
A augmentedA B minorBm
Hung his fiddle and his flat top guitar
D MajorD A augmentedA
Up in the high school gym
A augmentedA B minorBm
Nobody remembers his name
D MajorD A augmentedA
And I can't say anyone's to blame
A augmentedA B minorBm
One of these times you gotta hear him play
D MajorD A augmentedA
He was the greatest that's ever been
Pre-Chorus:
B minorBm
You can fool all the jokers with diamonds
C# minorC#m
You can playboy ramblin' roots
D MajorD
You can lie like a penny on the CNO line
E MajorE
But the good Lord knows the truth
Chorus:
A augmentedA B minorBm
Just like a old hickory
D MajorD A augmentedA
Shadin' the porch of a house that's been torn down
A augmentedA B minorBm
There ain't nothin' that's left but the memory
D MajorD
And that long, tall, scraggily, bitter nut
A augmentedA B minorBm
Old hickory
D MajorD A augmentedA
Shadin' the porch of a house that's been torn down
A augmentedA B minorBm
There ain't nothin' that's left but the memory
D MajorD A augmentedA
And that long, tall, scraggily, bitter nut old hickory
D MajorD A augmentedA
Oh and that long, tall, scraggily, bitter nut old hickory