🎸 Nashville 1972 chords by Rodney Crowell

• Capo on 6th

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Db

Difficulty: Novice

Chords:
D 200232 (D/F#)

Intro:
G C G D G

Verse 1:
 G           C         G
I had a dog named Banjo and a girl named Muffin
              D       G
I just blew in from Texas, I didn't know nothing
                      C          G
But I found my way around this town with a friend I made named Guy
          D      G
Who loved Susanna, and so did I

Verse 2:
          G                   C         G
Now, there was this run down shack on Acklen Avenue that I shared with Skinny Dennis
                   D           G
And a poet name of Richard Dobson who had a novel he'd never finish
                       C           G
That's when Johnny Rodriguez, David Olney and Steve Earle first came through
                 D      G
And every other guitar bum whose name I never knew

Chorus:
C     G     D       G
Old school Nashville, Harlan Howard, Bob McDill
C        G          D      G
Tom T. Hall, go drink your fill, and blow us all away

Instrumental:
G C G D G

Verse 3:
          G                     C       G
Now, there was this tight-rope-walker who called herself "The Queen of Poughkeepsie"
                    D         G
Who ran away from the circus with some roustabout redneck gypsy
                     C     G
Now, they were Townes Van Zandt fans and prone to combustion
                 D         G
They fought like dogs in Spanish and made love in Russian

Bridge:
 Em        D        C       G
I wish Newberry and Buck White would drop on by the house tonight
Em             D         C         D
 Things have changed 'round here you bet, but it don't seem much better yet

Verse 4:
 G                 C      G
I first met Willie Nelson with some friends at a party
                 D          G
I was twenty-two years old and he must've been pushing forty
                                C        G
Now, there was hippies and reefer and God knows what all, I was drinking pretty hard
                      D        G
I played him this shitty song I wrote, then puked out in the yard

Chorus:
C     G     D       G
Old school Nashville, Harlan Howard, Bob McDill
C        G          D      G
Tom T. Hall, go drink your fill, and blow us all away
C        G          D      G
Tom T. Hall, go drink your fill, and blow us all away

Outro:
G C G D G