Deford Rides Again chords by Old Crow Medicine Show
Guitar chords with lyrics
🎸 Intro:
G
🎸 Verse 1:
G
DeFord was a man from Castlewood
Tenn'
D G
Blowed on that harp both night and day
How he wailed on them reeds 'til his lips would bleed
D G
Played 'til the Lord knows when
D
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
The greatest there ever been
🎸 Chorus:
C G
Blow, blow
DeFord, blow
C D
Play that Pan-American
G F D G
Oh, oh, where did he go?
D G
DeFord Bailey rides again
🎸 Verse 2:
G
Arise, gals and gents, for the show to commence
D G
There's a good-nature riot on the air
G
Little DeFord's on the loose with them Muscle Shoals Blues
D G
Let the Jim Crow South beware
D
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
Singin', "Oh
Lord, ain't I a man "
🎸 Chorus:
C G
Blow, blow
DeFord, blow
C D
Play that Pan-American
G F D G
Oh, oh, where did he go?
D G
DeFord Bailey rides again
🎸 Instrumental:
C G C D G F D G D 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
For that kind of sin, there ain't no excuse
🎸 Chorus:
C G
Blow, blow
DeFord, blow
C D
Play that Pan-American
G F D G
Oh, oh, where did he go?
D G
DeFord Bailey rides again
C G
Blow, blow
DeFord, blow
C D
Play that Pan-American
G F D G
Oh, oh, where did he go?
D G
DeFord Bailey rides again
D G
DeFord Bailey rides again
D F G
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