New Mississippi Flag chords by Old Crow Medicine Show

🎸 Intro:

C    F   C/E   Dm   C



🎸 Verse 1:
               Am               E/Ab
She'll be the color of the big muddy
 F                 C
Green as a burial mound
 F                C               Dm                E
Gold like stars twinkling on a sleepy little delta town
        C                  Bb
In the middle put a big magnolia
          F                     Fm
Raise her up from the capitol ground
           C              F                 C
When the brand new Mississippi flag goes flying

🎸 Verse 2:
               Am          E/Ab
She'll have a diamond for Elvis
F          C
Eudora Welty lines
  F                     C              Dm            E
Railroad dust for the brakemen singing    Blue Yodel #9
                 C               Bb
She'll have a stripe for Robert Johnson
     F                Fm
And one for Charlie Pride
           C              F
When the brand new Mississippi flag
           C              F
When the brand new Mississippi flag
           C              F                 C
When the brand new Mississippi flag goes flying

🎸 Chorus:
             Am                  E/Ab
And she can take the wind or a hurricane
  Gsus4             D/F#
Rattling chains and all the pain
      F                    G           C
And still she stands and proudly she waves
               Am                 E/Ab
Yes, and it's high time that she honors all
    Gsus4             D/F#
The ones that justice never called
     F                              G
And all her sons and daughters who died on the road to change

🎸 Instrumental:
C    F    C    F

C    F    C/E  Dm  C


🎸 Verse 3:
               Am              E/Ab
She'll be the color of the big muddy
         F                   C
For the river that gave her life
     F                  C                  Dm               E
And carried us to the crossroads of doing wrong and making right
   C                Bb        F                   Fm
I love you Mississippi and I won't be ashamed to cry
          C               F
When the brand new Mississippi flag
           C              F
When the brand new Mississippi flag
           C              F                 C
When the brand new Mississippi flag goes flying