Decoration Day chords by Drive-By Truckers

SimplifiedG · D · Em · Bm · F#m

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Intro 1

It's Decoration Day

Verse 1
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And I've a mind to
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roll a stone on his grave
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But what would he say
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"Keeping me down,
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boy, won't keep you away"

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Verse 2

It's Decoration Day

And I knew the Hill Boys

would put him away

But my Daddy wasn't afraid

He said "We'd fight till the last

Lawson's last living day"

Verse 3
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I  never knew how it all got started
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A problem with Holland be
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fore we were born
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And I don't know the name of
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that boy we tied down
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And beat 'til he just
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couldn't walk anymore

Verse 4
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But I  know the caliber
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in  daddy's chest
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And I know what Holland Hill drives
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The state let him go,
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but I guess it was best
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'Cause nobody needs all us Lawson's

Interlude 1

alive

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Verse 5
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Daddy said one of the boys
had come by
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The lumber man's favorite son
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He said "Beat him real good,
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but don't dare let him die
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And if you see Holland Hill run"
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Now I

Verse 6
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said, "They ain't give
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us trouble before
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That we ain't brought
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down on ourselves"
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But a chain on my back
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and my ear to the floor
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And I'll send all the Hill Boys to hell
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I'll send all the Hill Boys to hell

Interlude 2

Verse 7
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It's Decoration Day
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And I've got a family
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in Mobile Bay
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And they've never seen my
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daddy's grave
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But that don't bother me,
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it ain't marked anyway
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'Cause

Verse 8
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I  got dead brothers
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in Lauderdale South
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And I  got dead brothers
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in East Tennessee
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My  Daddy got shot right
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in front of his house
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He had no one to fall on but me

Verse 9
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It's Decoration Day
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And I've a mind to go spit on his grave
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If I  was a Hill,
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I'd have put him away
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And I'd fight 'til the last
Em 
Lawson's last living day
D 
I'd fight 'til the last
Em 
Lawson's last living day
D 
F#m 
D 
Em 
I'd fight 'til the last Lawson's last living day

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