Chords for Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash

Things were going wrong with the plane a little bit.
Nothing serious, but enough to notice it wasn't flying top notch, you know. _ _
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_ _ Everybody was playing poker.
[C] I remember [Bm] Ronnie did have a _ _ _
[G] _ _ [C] little_
_ _ [D] You could really feel a little_
_ _ I was [Db] in the cockpit _ [Gb] in the navigator [F] jump seat in between the pilot and the co-pilot.
I looked at Walter McCreary and I said, we can [Db] fly on one engine, right?
[Bb] He looked at me with fear in his eyes and I saw it.
His eyes were bugging out.
He said, Artemis, you [C] better go back and strap yourself in. _
[Eb] The pilot sent the co-pilot back to say, hey, we're going to make a landing and try to see what's happening here.
So it might be a little rough, so put your heads between your legs.
Like back in the Cold War when the schools said, there's a nuclear bomb coming, just get under your desk, you'll be fine.
_ [E] We started hitting the treetops real_
you could hear them.
And it got louder and louder until _ it just got so overwhelming loud and bumpy.
That's when I, I guess, got knocked out. _
[Bb] It felt like a thousand baseball [Ab] bats being beaten on [C] the fuselage.
So the plane started coming apart [Eb] and I'm looking out the window, the left wing comes off. _ _
_ I [Fm] woke up on the ground, I thought a plane door was on me because I couldn't move and get up.
In reality, I was so broken, all my bones and legs and everything.
I just couldn't get up and I said, Dean, get this door off of me.
Dean, come here.
And I swear to God, to me, he came over and pushed the door off me.
_ Later on, one of the doctors said that he couldn't have done that, the way they brought him in.
He was too far gone, you know.
_ But I saw him do it.
My friends were bleeding to death.
I knew that the only thing that was going to help my friends was to get to a farmhouse and bring help back to that crash site.
But we stopped so fast, my boots had come off and I couldn't bend over because of my chest injuries.
So I'm walking through the briars and the brambles and it was getting darker and darker.
I remember waking up to the helicopters were hovering [D] in _
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like Vietnam.
[C] I had only seen it on TV, but the helicopters [Bb] and your buddies screaming and yelling.
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_ _ _ I had some ribs broken, my pelvic and everything, man.
It had to be the next day because my mother had gotten there _ and _ she _ _ _ _ wouldn't tell me. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I said, please tell me.
And she started right off with Ronnie.
_ And that really freaked [G] me out because he was the tough guy.
I thought if he died, everybody [F] else did.
Those dead are Leonard Skinner's lead singer, Ronnie Van [A] Zandt, guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister Cassie, a backup [C] vocalist,
assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, [C] the plane's pilot [G] Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray.
[F] There was two benches in the front of the plane.
[B] Ronnie was here [Am] and I was between him [A] and Dean.
And Alan was [C] right across on that little bench in front of [G] me.
And he was between Cassie and Steve.
So all those [F] people died and Alan and me didn't.
And after it, we [Am] freaked out.
But how do we live and didn't [D] die?
_ [C] _ _ _ _ The other day, [G] _ _ I heard my friend [F] say, _ _ life was oh so [Em] bad, _ _ love was all in [C] _ vain.
_ No, all day long.
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Sad [F] songs, _ _ the blues, the [Am] fear.
_ _ Things no doctor can [C] heal. _ _ _
That's okay.
[G] _ _ I'll never change my [F] way.
_ _ Maybe I am wrong.
[A] _ _ _ But I'll soon be [C] gone.
They _ _
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_ _ _ [Am] _ _ sent them all around the room.
For days, [C] I remember the faces [Gm] of Ronnie and everybody who died. _ _
[Am] _ I could see their [F] faces like a shadow in those plants.
_ _ [A] I could look up at them.
[Cm] I'd even say, [C] don't you see them up there?
Mama, don't.
_ _ [G] It was just me, I guess. _
I think they were there [F] helping, you know. _ _
And those flowers [E] for about a week, then they went away.
The spirit went [Gb] away.
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