Chords for "Decoration Day" Whiskey Myers

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[Bb] _ _ It's [F] decoration _ _
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and I [F] got a man who [Gm] wrote a stone on his _ grave.
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_ [F] But what he say, [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ he [C] say he keepin' me down but [Gm] won't keep me away.
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It's [G] decoration _ _ [Gm] day, _ _ _ _ [Bb] and I knew [F] the _ [Gm] hillboys that had put him away.
[Bb] But my daddy [G]
wasn't [Gm] afraid, _ _ _ _ said [G] [C] we'd fight [F] till the last [Gm] loss was last living day. _
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_ [Bb] _ I never [G] knew how [Gm] it all got _ started, [Bb] the [G] problem with Harlem [Gm] before _ we were born.
I [Bb] don't know [F] the name [Gm] of that _ boy we tied [F] down and beat till he just couldn't [Gm] _
walk anymore.
_ _ _ [Bb] I know [F] the caliber [Gm] _ in daddy's chest, _ [Bb] I know [G] what Harlem [Gm] Hill _ drives.
And [Bb] the state let [F] him go, [Gm] but I _ guess it was _ best, [F] cause _ nobody needs [Gm] all those lost ones alive. _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Bb] _ Daddy [F] said one of [Gm] them boys had come by, _ [Bb] the lumber _ [G] man's favorite [Gm] _ _ _ son.
He [G] said [Bb] beat him [F] real good, but [Gm] boy _ don't let him down [F] if you say Harlem [Gm] Hill wrong.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] I said [G] they never [Gm] gave us trouble _ before, _ [G] _ we ain't brought down on [Gm] _ _ _
ourselves.
With [Bb] that chain on [F] my [Gm] back and my ear to the floor, _ [F] I'll send all those _
_ [Gm] hillboys to hell. _ _
[F] I'll send all those _ _
[Gm] _ hillboys to hell. _ _
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day, _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Bb]
and I got [F] a family [Gm] in Mobile _ Bay. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And [Bb] they ain't never [G] seen my _ [Gm] daddy's _ grave, [F] but that don't bother me, it [Gm] ain't marked anyway.
_ _ [Bb] Cause I [F] got dead [Gm] brothers in _ Lauderdale South, _ [Bb] I got [F] dead [Gm] brothers in East Tennessee. _
And [Bb] my daddy [F] was shot [Gm] right in front of his _ house, he [F] had no one to follow [Gm] _
home with me.
He [F]
had no one to follow _ [Gm]
home with _ _ me. _ _
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_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ It's [F] _
decoration _ [Gm] day, _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] and I got a man [Gm] going to spit on his _ grave. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And [Bb] if I was a [C] hill, I'd [Gm] put him away.
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_ [C] I'd fight [F] till the last [G] lawson's last living day. _
_ [C] I'd fight [F] till the last [Gm] lawson's last living day.
_ _ _ _ [F] I'd fight till the last _ _ lawson's _
[Gm] last living _ day. _ _
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Thank you.
That was a song about killing. _
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