The Death Of Jimmy Martin chords by Tom Russell

Guitar chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)


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

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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