Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones chords by Eric Church

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:

D A G   A D   A G   A D


Verse:

D   A    G
Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones
G       A  D
Spelled with all 4 y's
  D    A G
Was born in 70-something
        G      A    D
Between "Sweet Home" & "You Got That Right"
  D  A    G
His mama met his daddy
   G   A   D
At a Tallahassee show
  D     A
But just like Tuesday
G           A    D
Daddy wound up gone on down the road

Chorus:
D   A    Bm
Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones
A      G    A D
Hailed from Gadsden, Alabama
D    A   Bm
Born to carry on
A    G  A   D
Who his mama was a fan of
D     A   Bm
Don't ask me no questions
A   G     A   Bm
And I won't tell you no lies
    G        D
That's what she always told him
     G    A    D  A G   A D
Right up till the day she died


Verse:
D   A   G
Lynyrd wasn't black or white
    G     A  D
He was somewhere in between
      D    A   G
Throw in, abandoned and confused
        G         A    D
And you get the blues when you're just thirteen
   D    A   G
Well he found his salvation
   G     A     D
In a pawn shop bought guitar
     D     A    G
You can't teach that kind of pickin'
      G     A     D
It's got to come right from your heart


Chorus:
D   A    Bm
Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones
A      G    A D
Hailed from Gadsden, Alabama
D    A   Bm
Born to carry on
A    G  A   D
Who his mama was a fan of
D     A   Bm
Don't ask me no questions
A   G     A   Bm
And I won't tell you no lies
    G        D
That's what she always told him
     G    A    D  A Bm A G A D
Right up till the day she died


Post-Chorus:
D  A  Bm A  G  A  D
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

G  A D


Verse:
   D   A    G
When Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones'
G  A    D
Mama passed away
 D     A     G
A dressed in all black, black man
   G     A    D
Stood up in the back to say
   D     A     G
Been thinking about your mama
      G   A   Bm
Since that Tallahassee show
   G   D    Em
Yeah son, I am your daddy
D   G    A   D
And my name is Curtis Lowe


Outro:
D  A  Bm A  G  A  D
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
D  A  Bm A  G  A  D
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh