The Death Of Jimmy Martin chords by Tom Russell

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
G+G C majorC   FF G+G  C majorC

Verse:
                            A minorAm
There's a hound dog running all alone through the piney woods
     FF               C majorC
Lord, his howling tears the soul out of me
                     A minorAm
There's a jay bird calling out a funeral dirge
  FF       C majorC
In ancient harmony

Verse:
    A minorAm           FF
Barb'ry Allen rolled over in a grave all morning
   C majorC       FF     G+G
With roses growing out of her head
   C majorC      FF     C majorC        FF
Hey, god's gonna burn down Nashville, boys
           C majorC
'Cause Jimmy Martin's dead
          G+G       C majorC
Ah, the great Jimmy Martin's gone dead

Verse:
           FF         C majorC
You got twenty-twenty vision, but you're walking 'round blind
       G+G  C majorC
You Grand Ole Opry fools
           FF         C majorC
With your hypocritic judgments and your self-righteous snobbery
        G+G       C majorC
Your goddamned false hearted rule

Verse:
  A minorAm             FF
You scorned Hank Williams, you shunned Jimmy Martin
     C majorC     FF     G+G
Boys who sang with tongues on fire
  C majorC      FF       C majorC
So god's gonna burn down your Grand Ole Opry
     FF               C majorC
Hear the screams of the hypocrites and liars
             G+G      C majorC
They feel safer now that Jimmy has expired

Chorus:
   G+G          FF
Yeah, run, Pete, run, your master's calling you
   C majorC     FF  G+G
He's waiting on up ahead
A minorAm        FF            C majorC
Don't look back, Nashville's burning down
   G+G    C majorC
Jimmy Martin's dead
          G+G       C majorC
Oh, the great Jimmy Martin's gone dead

Instrumental:
C majorC FF C majorC   FF C majorC  G+G C majorC
A minorAm FF C majorC G+G C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC  G+G C majorC

Verse:
         FF       C majorC
Yeah, don't call me no country singer
         G+G    C majorC
Those are poison words to me
        FF      C majorC
'Cause I ain't heard a good country song
        G+G    C majorC
Since Nineteen Seventy-Three

Verse:
    A minorAm          FF
Ah, the king of bluegrass has died for your sins
       C majorC     FF        G+G
The whore of Babylon is sleeping in your bed
  C majorC      FF     C majorC        FF
So, god's gonna burn down Nashville, boys
           C majorC
'Cause Jimmy Martin's dead
           G+G       C majorC
Yeah, the great Jimmy Martin's gone dead

Chorus:
   G+G          FF
Yeah, run, Pete, run, your master's calling you
   C majorC     FF  G+G
He's waiting on up ahead
A minorAm        FF            C majorC
Don't look back, Nashville's burning down
   G+G    C majorC
Jimmy Martin's dead
          G+G       C majorC
Ah, the great Jimmy Martin's gone dead

Outro:
          FF      C majorC
There's a hound dog running all alone through the piney woods
  FF               C majorC
The howling tears the soul out of me