Ballad Of The Blue And Gray chords by Lefty Frizzell

SimplifiedA · D · Eb · G

GuitarPianoUkulele

Verse 1
A 
D 
Eb 
D 
 (A major)  (D major) Ooooo...  (E flat major)  (D major) 
G 
Now Jimmy chose the  (G major) Yankee blue
A 
D 
His heart  (A major) was on their side  (D major) 
G 
But brother Billy joined  (G major) the rebs
A 
And  (A major) how their mother cried
D 
 (D major) They both shook hands
G 
and  (G major) kissed their mum,
A 
there  (A major) wasn't much to say
D 
G 
 (D major) One headed north, the  (G major) other south,
A 
the  (A major) blue against the grey
D 
 (D major) It was brother fighting brother,
A 
G 
father fight (A major) ing son  (G major) 
A 
A  (A major) war which both sides had to lose
D 
Eb 
D 
No matter which side  (D major) won  (E flat major)  (D major) 
G 
Bill was in the charts at Gettysburg  (G major) 
A 
He'd  (A major) never known defeat
D 
G 
 (D major) While Jim was up there on  (G major) the hill,
A 
D 
each  (A major) prayed they'd never meet  (D major) 
G 
With Jim a dozen yard (G major) s ahead,
A 
D 
the  (A major) Yanks came down the hill  (D major) 
G 
And when the smoke had  (G major) cleared away,
A 
Jim found  (A major) his brother Bill
D 
G 
 (D major) Jim knelt beside young Billy,  (G major) 
A 
D 
but he  (A major) had no words to  (D major) say
G 
Bob Bill saw him and  (G major) held his fire
A 
D 
while  (A major) Jim had blazed away  (D major) 
It was brother fighting brother,
G 
father fighting son  (G major) 
A 
A  (A major) war which both sides had to lose,
D 
Eb 
D 
Eb 
D 
Eb 
no matter which side  (D major) won.  (E flat major)  (D major)  (E flat major)  (D major)  (E flat major) 
You