Chords for Marty Stuart - My Mississippi - Far Away
Tempo:
97.6 bpm
Chords used:
A
E
D
F#m
Dm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[A] [E] [D] [A]
[E] [A] I once heard it said that there are two kinds of Mississippians, those who are leaving and
those who are coming back.
[E] Well, I've lost count of the times down through the years that I've returned home to Mississippi
with the cares of life and the dust of the world all over me.
An amazing transformation usually occurs when I surrender myself to God's presence amongst
the pines, the magnolias, the ponds, and the song of the Malkinburg.
During one of those times, I found myself at my grandpa, Elry Lee Johnson's old house.
And although he'd been gone many years, my uncle had maintained the place as a retreat.
I sat down at the dining room table with my guitar and a piece of paper to try and write a song.
And the longer I sat there, the more that table meant [F#m] to me.
My grandpa [C#] Johnson was a good [D] man, a just man, the first statesman I ever met.
He was proud to call himself a Mississippi country farmer.
[E] And that table that I was writing this song upon, it held a bounty that his land yielded
for his family throughout the Depression year.
Prayers were prayed for neighbors and loved ones during World War.
[F#m] That table [G#] had tears shed upon it when my grandma [E] lost her fight for life.
[D] It even survived Hurricane Camille during my grandpa's brief move to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
And now, it seemed to welcome me home once [A] again like some old friend.
[E] I wrote a song that afternoon titled Far Away.
[D] It pertains to coming home after living a fast life.
[A] I truly never thought it would ever be heard outside of that room, but it was.
I was composing the musical score for a film my buddy Billy Bob Thornton was directing
called All the Pretty Horses.
And Far Away was chosen as the end title song for that film.
As I stood in that studio in California [F#] and listened [E] to a 75-piece orchestra play my songs,
I simply closed my [Dm] eyes and dreamed of home.
I'm Marty Stewart, and that's the story of a song that comes from deep down in the [D] heart
and soul of my [D#] Mississippi.
[D] [Dm] [Bm] [A]
[B] [G#m] [A]
[E] [A] I once heard it said that there are two kinds of Mississippians, those who are leaving and
those who are coming back.
[E] Well, I've lost count of the times down through the years that I've returned home to Mississippi
with the cares of life and the dust of the world all over me.
An amazing transformation usually occurs when I surrender myself to God's presence amongst
the pines, the magnolias, the ponds, and the song of the Malkinburg.
During one of those times, I found myself at my grandpa, Elry Lee Johnson's old house.
And although he'd been gone many years, my uncle had maintained the place as a retreat.
I sat down at the dining room table with my guitar and a piece of paper to try and write a song.
And the longer I sat there, the more that table meant [F#m] to me.
My grandpa [C#] Johnson was a good [D] man, a just man, the first statesman I ever met.
He was proud to call himself a Mississippi country farmer.
[E] And that table that I was writing this song upon, it held a bounty that his land yielded
for his family throughout the Depression year.
Prayers were prayed for neighbors and loved ones during World War.
[F#m] That table [G#] had tears shed upon it when my grandma [E] lost her fight for life.
[D] It even survived Hurricane Camille during my grandpa's brief move to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
And now, it seemed to welcome me home once [A] again like some old friend.
[E] I wrote a song that afternoon titled Far Away.
[D] It pertains to coming home after living a fast life.
[A] I truly never thought it would ever be heard outside of that room, but it was.
I was composing the musical score for a film my buddy Billy Bob Thornton was directing
called All the Pretty Horses.
And Far Away was chosen as the end title song for that film.
As I stood in that studio in California [F#] and listened [E] to a 75-piece orchestra play my songs,
I simply closed my [Dm] eyes and dreamed of home.
I'm Marty Stewart, and that's the story of a song that comes from deep down in the [D] heart
and soul of my [D#] Mississippi.
[D] [Dm] [Bm] [A]
[B] [G#m] [A]
Key:
A
E
D
F#m
Dm
A
E
D
[A] _ [E] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
[E] _ [A] _ _ I once heard it said that there are two kinds of Mississippians, those who are leaving and
those who are coming back.
[E] Well, I've lost count of the times down through the years that I've returned home to Mississippi
with the cares of life and the dust of the world all over me.
An amazing transformation usually occurs when I surrender myself to God's presence amongst
the pines, the magnolias, the ponds, and the song of the Malkinburg.
During one of those times, I found myself at my grandpa, Elry Lee Johnson's old house.
And although he'd been gone many years, my uncle had maintained the place as a retreat.
I sat down at the dining room table with my guitar and a piece of paper to try and write a song.
And the longer I sat there, the more that table meant [F#m] to me.
My grandpa [C#] Johnson was a good [D] man, a just man, the first statesman I ever met.
He was proud to call himself a Mississippi country farmer. _
[E] And that table that I was writing this song upon, it held a bounty that his land yielded
for his family throughout the Depression year.
Prayers were prayed for neighbors and loved ones during World War.
[F#m] That table [G#] had tears shed upon it when my grandma [E] lost her fight for life.
[D] It even survived Hurricane Camille during my grandpa's brief move to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
And now, it seemed to welcome me home once [A] again like some old friend.
[E] I wrote a song that afternoon titled Far Away.
[D] It pertains to coming home after living a fast life.
[A] I truly never thought it would ever be heard outside of that room, but it was.
I was composing the musical score for a film my buddy Billy Bob Thornton was directing
called All the Pretty Horses.
And Far Away was chosen as the end title song for that film.
_ As I stood in that studio in California [F#] and listened [E] to a 75-piece orchestra play my songs,
I simply closed my [Dm] eyes and dreamed of home.
_ I'm Marty Stewart, and that's the story of a song that comes from deep down in the [D] heart
and soul of my [D#] Mississippi.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [A] _
_ [B] _ [G#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ [A] _ _ I once heard it said that there are two kinds of Mississippians, those who are leaving and
those who are coming back.
[E] Well, I've lost count of the times down through the years that I've returned home to Mississippi
with the cares of life and the dust of the world all over me.
An amazing transformation usually occurs when I surrender myself to God's presence amongst
the pines, the magnolias, the ponds, and the song of the Malkinburg.
During one of those times, I found myself at my grandpa, Elry Lee Johnson's old house.
And although he'd been gone many years, my uncle had maintained the place as a retreat.
I sat down at the dining room table with my guitar and a piece of paper to try and write a song.
And the longer I sat there, the more that table meant [F#m] to me.
My grandpa [C#] Johnson was a good [D] man, a just man, the first statesman I ever met.
He was proud to call himself a Mississippi country farmer. _
[E] And that table that I was writing this song upon, it held a bounty that his land yielded
for his family throughout the Depression year.
Prayers were prayed for neighbors and loved ones during World War.
[F#m] That table [G#] had tears shed upon it when my grandma [E] lost her fight for life.
[D] It even survived Hurricane Camille during my grandpa's brief move to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
And now, it seemed to welcome me home once [A] again like some old friend.
[E] I wrote a song that afternoon titled Far Away.
[D] It pertains to coming home after living a fast life.
[A] I truly never thought it would ever be heard outside of that room, but it was.
I was composing the musical score for a film my buddy Billy Bob Thornton was directing
called All the Pretty Horses.
And Far Away was chosen as the end title song for that film.
_ As I stood in that studio in California [F#] and listened [E] to a 75-piece orchestra play my songs,
I simply closed my [Dm] eyes and dreamed of home.
_ I'm Marty Stewart, and that's the story of a song that comes from deep down in the [D] heart
and soul of my [D#] Mississippi.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [A] _
_ [B] _ [G#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _