Old Hickory chords by Old Crow Medicine Show

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
A        Bm
Virgil Lee was a mighty man
    D      A
He could outrun the L&N
A           Bm
Caught a wild cat and made him his friend
    D       A
He was a flat woods boy
A             Bm
Caught his learnin' from a runnin' brook
      D          A
Taught him go with the flow and don't get hooked
A           Bm
But Virgil Lee kindly mistook
  D           A
The devil for a dear friend

Pre-Chorus:
Bm
You can fool all the jokers with diamonds
    C#m
You can playboy ramblin' roots
    D
You can lie like a penny on the CNO line
    E
But the good Lord knows the truth


Chorus:
      A  Bm
Just like a old hickory
D                       A
Shadin' the porch of a house that's been torn down
A                    Bm
There ain't nothin' that's left but the memory
D                       A
And that long, tall, scraggily, bitter nut old hickory


Verse 2:
A            Bm
It was Gainsboro at the Glow Worm Bar
    D        A
We were passin' around a jug and a guitar
A            Bm
Virgil picked it like an Opry star
      D       A
I mean the boy was on fire
A                  Bm
I said, "Hey Virgil Lee, where'd you get that stuff?"
     D               A
He said, "I don't know, I guess I made it up?"
A         Bm
Well sometimes an empty cup
   D    A
Just overflows


Pre-Chorus:
Bm                   C#m
And all that summer was fire and rain
                   D
Virgil Lee started nursin' the pain

'Til every one of them songs he would play
  E
Was twisted, falling down


Chorus:
    A   Bm
Like a old hickory
D                       A
Shadin' the porch of a house that's been torn down
A                    Bm
There ain't nothin' that's left but the memory
     D                   A
And that long, tall, scraggily, bitter nut old hickory


Verse 3:
A          Bm
Laid him out in his overalls
        D          A
'Cause when you get too big for your breeches well that's all
A            Bm
Hung his fiddle and his flat top guitar
D           A
Up in the high school gym
A   Bm
Nobody remembers his name
  D       A
And I can't say anyone's to blame
A              Bm
One of these times you gotta hear him play
      D          A
He was the greatest that's ever been


Pre-Chorus:
Bm
You can fool all the jokers with diamonds
    C#m
You can playboy ramblin' roots
    D
You can lie like a penny on the CNO line
    E
But the good Lord knows the truth


Chorus:
      A  Bm
Just like a old hickory
D                       A
Shadin' the porch of a house that's been torn down
A                    Bm
There ain't nothin' that's left but the memory
     D
And that long, tall, scraggily, bitter nut
A  Bm
Old hickory
D                       A
Shadin' the porch of a house that's been torn down
A                    Bm
There ain't nothin' that's left but the memory
     D                   A
And that long, tall, scraggily, bitter nut old hickory
D                         A
Oh and that long, tall, scraggily, bitter nut old hickory