Deford Rides Again chords by Old Crow Medicine Show

🎸 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
DeFord Bailey rides again