The Death Of Jimmy Martin chords by Tom Russell

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Verse 1
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There's
a hound dog running all
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alone through the piney woods
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Lord he's howling,
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tears the soul out of me
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There's a jay bird calling out a funeral dirge
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In ancient harmony
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Barbary
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Al  len rolled over
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In a grave all mornin'
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With roses growin' out of her head
Hey,
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God's gonna burn down
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Nashville, boys
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Cause
Jimmy
Martin's dead
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All the great
Jimmy
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Martin's gone dead
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You got 20 -20 vision
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But you're walkin' around blind
You grand old
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Opry fools
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With your hypocritic judgments and
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your self -righteous snobbery
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Your goddamn false -hearted rules
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You scorned
Hank
Williams
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You shunned
Jimmy
Martin
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Boys who sang with tongues on fire
So
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God's gonna burn down your grand old
Opry
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Hear the screams of the
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hypocrites and li ars
They feel safer now that
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Jimmy has expired
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Yeah, run,
Pete, run
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Your master's calling you
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He's waiting on up ahead
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Don't look back
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Nashville's burning down
Jimmy
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Martin's dead
All the great
Jimmy
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Martins gone dead
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Come on,
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Red!
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Yeah, don't call me no country singer
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Those are poison words to me

Verse 2
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I  ain't heard a good coun
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try song since 1973
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Oh, the king of bluegrass
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has died for your sins
The whore of
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Babylon is sleeping in your bed
So
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God's gonna burn down
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Nashville, boys

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Verse 3
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'Cause
Jimmy
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Martin's dead, yeah, the great
Jimmy
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Martin's gone dead
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Run,
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Pete, run, your master's callin' you
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He's waitin' on up ahead
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Don't look back,
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Nashville's burnin' down
Jimmy
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Martin's dead
All the great
Jimmy
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Martins gone dead
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There's a hound dog runnin' all alone
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Through the piney wood
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The howlin' tears the soul out of me
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