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Old Hickory chords by Old Crow Medicine Show

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
Chord diagramA augmentedA                Chord diagramB minorBm
Virgil Lee was a mighty man
        Chord diagramD MajorD           Chord diagramA augmentedA
He could outrun the L&N
Chord diagramA augmentedA                     Chord diagramB minorBm
Caught a wild cat and made him his friend
        Chord diagramD MajorD             Chord diagramA augmentedA
He was a flat woods boy
Chord diagramA augmentedA                          Chord diagramB minorBm
Caught his learnin' from a runnin' brook
           Chord diagramD MajorD                    Chord diagramA augmentedA
Taught him go with the flow and don't get hooked
Chord diagramA augmentedA                     Chord diagramB minorBm
But Virgil Lee kindly mistook
    Chord diagramD MajorD                      Chord diagramA augmentedA
The devil for a dear friend
Pre-Chorus:
Chord diagramB minorBm
You can fool all the jokers with diamonds
        Chord diagramC# minorC#m
You can playboy ramblin' roots
        Chord diagramD MajorD
You can lie like a penny on the CNO line
        Chord diagramE MajorE
But the good Lord knows the truth


Chorus:
           Chord diagramA augmentedA    Chord diagramB minorBm
Just like a old hickory
Chord diagramD MajorD                                             Chord diagramA augmentedA
Shadin' the porch of a house that's been torn down
Chord diagramA augmentedA                                       Chord diagramB minorBm
There ain't nothin' that's left but the memory
Chord diagramD MajorD                                              Chord diagramA augmentedA
And that long, tall, scraggily, bitter nut old hickory


Verse 2:
Chord diagramA augmentedA                       Chord diagramB minorBm
It was Gainsboro at the Glow Worm Bar
        Chord diagramD MajorD                Chord diagramA augmentedA
We were passin' around a jug and a guitar
Chord diagramA augmentedA                        Chord diagramB minorBm
Virgil picked it like an Opry star
           Chord diagramD MajorD              Chord diagramA augmentedA
I mean the boy was on fire
Chord diagramA augmentedA                                    Chord diagramB minorBm
I said, "Hey Virgil Lee, where'd you get that stuff "
         Chord diagramD MajorD                             Chord diagramA augmentedA
He said, "I don't know, I guess I made it up "
Chord diagramA augmentedA                 Chord diagramB minorBm
Well sometimes an empty cup
     Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramA augmentedA
Just overflows
Pre-Chorus:
Chord diagramB minorBm                                     Chord diagramC# minorC#m
And all that summer was fire and rain
                                      Chord diagramD MajorD
Virgil Lee started nursin' the pain

'Til every one of them songs he would play
    Chord diagramE MajorE
Was twisted, falling down


Chorus:
       Chord diagramA augmentedA     Chord diagramB minorBm
Like a old hickory
Chord diagramD MajorD                                             Chord diagramA augmentedA
Shadin' the porch of a house that's been torn down
Chord diagramA augmentedA                                       Chord diagramB minorBm
There ain't nothin' that's left but the memory
         Chord diagramD MajorD                                     Chord diagramA augmentedA
And that long, tall, scraggily, bitter nut old hickory


Verse 3:
Chord diagramA augmentedA                   Chord diagramB minorBm
Laid him out in his overalls
                Chord diagramD MajorD                    Chord diagramA augmentedA
'Cause when you get too big for your breeches well that's all
Chord diagramA augmentedA                       Chord diagramB minorBm
Hung his fiddle and his flat top guitar
Chord diagramD MajorD                     Chord diagramA augmentedA
Up in the high school gym
Chord diagramA augmentedA      Chord diagramB minorBm
Nobody remembers his name
    Chord diagramD MajorD              Chord diagramA augmentedA
And I can't say anyone's to blame
Chord diagramA augmentedA                            Chord diagramB minorBm
One of these times you gotta hear him play
           Chord diagramD MajorD                    Chord diagramA augmentedA
He was the greatest that's ever been


Pre-Chorus:
Chord diagramB minorBm
You can fool all the jokers with diamonds
        Chord diagramC# minorC#m
You can playboy ramblin' roots
        Chord diagramD MajorD
You can lie like a penny on the CNO line
        Chord diagramE MajorE
But the good Lord knows the truth


Chorus:
            Chord diagramA augmentedA   Chord diagramB minorBm
Just like a old hickory
Chord diagramD MajorD                                             Chord diagramA augmentedA
Shadin' the porch of a house that's been torn down
Chord diagramA augmentedA                                       Chord diagramB minorBm
There ain't nothin' that's left but the memory
         Chord diagramD MajorD
And that long, tall, scraggily, bitter nut
Chord diagramA augmentedA   Chord diagramB minorBm
Old hickory
Chord diagramD MajorD                                             Chord diagramA augmentedA
Shadin' the porch of a house that's been torn down
Chord diagramA augmentedA                                       Chord diagramB minorBm
There ain't nothin' that's left but the memory
         Chord diagramD MajorD                                     Chord diagramA augmentedA
And that long, tall, scraggily, bitter nut old hickory
Chord diagramD MajorD                                                 Chord diagramA augmentedA
Oh and that long, tall, scraggily, bitter nut old hickory

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