Hammerin Nails chords by Joey Rory

Chords with lyrics

Hammerin? Nails
Joey + Rory
Inspired
Transcribed by: Steven P.


F#/A#  xx8676


Intro
BB E MajorE BB F#/A# G# minorG#m F#F#
Verse 1
  BB            E MajorE
My Daddy bought five acres high upon a hill
  BB                 F#F#
He went there every evenin?, when he got off at the mill
  BB                  E MajorE
He cleared the trees and brush away and leveled out some land
    BB                 F#F#         BB
Then he dug a hole and poured a slab with his own workin? hands

Verse 2
              E MajorE
He showed me a picture of a big house in a book
   BB                  F#F#
Said when we get it finished son, this is how it's gonna look
    BB              E MajorE
Then he buckled on his tool belt and grabbed a two by six
    BB                  F#F#      BB
Said ya gotta frame a sturdy wall before you ever lay a brick

Chorus
(  Tacet   )B   E MajorE        BB
He was hammerin? nails,  in our foun - dation
       E MajorE        F#F#
Buildin? our home up good and strong
     E MajorE           BB  F#F#  G# minorG#m
Stand the winds of life's temp ? ta - tions
          F#F#           BB
To build our house well he was a hammerin? nails

Solo
BB E MajorE BB F#/A# G# minorG#m F#F#

Verse 3
     BB               E MajorE
We worked with him on the weekends un - til our muscles hurt
   BB                F#F#
Then momma would come and get us and take us all to church
  BB              E MajorE
She read us from the Bible about Noah and the flood
   BB                 F#F#         BB
About John and Paul and Jesus and how he washed us in His blood

Chorus
             E MajorE        BB
She was hammerin? nails,  in our foun - dation
       E MajorE        F#F#
Buildin? our home up good and strong
     E MajorE           BB  F#F# G# minorG#m
Stand the winds of life's temp ? ta - tions
          F#F#            BB
To build our house well she was a hammerin? nails
                       (S l o w l y)
           F#F#        BB   F#/A# BB E MajorE BB
Yeah, they raised us well by hammerin? nails


This is my interpretation of the song and is what I hear. Since
U-G doesn't always include the correct chord voicings, I have
included some of them in this transcription. Please feel free to
experiment with your own chord voicings. For the F#/A#, you may
opt to play a standard F#F# barre chord and omit the A#A# in the root,
or bass position. The chord voicing provided at the top of the
page may sound a bit thin for some.