Black Diamond Strings Chords by Guy Clark

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Black Diamond Strings, [B]
it's Black Diamond Strings, [F#]
drinkin' one W Harper, [B] playin' Black Diamond Strings.
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Black Diamond Strings are [B] like white flower and grits you play, Black Diamond Strings, [F#] cause it's all you can [B] get. _ _
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_ Black Diamond Strings [E] on a catalog [B] guitar, that's pretty hot cotton, _ [F#] whoever [B] you are.
_ Break one, you change [E] one, that's as good [B] as it gets, you can play all year long [F#] on pure [B] three sets.
_ _ _ J.W. Crowell was [E] a hell [B] of a man, he played two nights a week in [F#] a [B] hillbilly band.
He played at the Ice House [E] on _ [B] Telephone Road, and he played in the yard [F#] just to lighten [B] his load.
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Black Diamond Strings, [B]
oh Black Diamond Strings, [F#]
drinkin' one W Harper, [B] playin' Black Diamond Strings.
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Black Diamond Strings [B] are like white flower and grits you play, Black Diamond Strings, [F#] cause it's all you [B] can get. _ _
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_ _ _ Say hey J.W., [E] come on, play that [B] Frogline, that old Rodney's set in, hell [F#] he's goin' [B] on nine.
_ His fingers are bleedin', but [E] he's keepin' good [B] time, playin' Black Diamond _ [F#] Strings and he'll never [B] quit _ tryin'. _ _
Now cause that she told them both, _ _ _ _ _ she said, you boys pack it up, [G#m] it's time to [B] go home.
We got church in the morning, [F#] and it's comin' [B] up dawn, _ don't make me say it [E] again or [B] I'm gone.
You can stay here forever, but [F#] you're gonna [B] walk home.
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Black Diamond Strings, [B] oh Black Diamond Strings, [F#]
drinkin' one W Harper, [B] playin' Black Diamond Strings.
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Black Diamond Strings are [B] like white flower and grits you play, Black Diamond Strings, [F#] cause it's all you [B] can get.
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Black Diamond Strings, [B] oh Black Diamond Strings, [F#]
drinkin' one W Harper, [B] playin' Black Diamond Strings.
_ [E]
Black Diamond Strings are [B] like white flower and grits you play, Black Diamond Strings, [F#] cause it's all you [B] can get. _ _
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