Old Crow Medicine Show – Dearly Departed Friend (Guitar)

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Great song off the OCMS Remedy Album. It was released on Memorial Day 2014. In the Key of D with a simple 4/4 time rhythm. The verses are 4 counts of D, 4 counts of G, 8 counts of A. This repeats pretty much throughout the song. The bridge is a bit different, but if you listen you will hear the rhythm. Hope you guys enjoy. Intro: D G A D G A Verse 1:
D                                       G                    A
The service went the way it should have gone, no one talk too loud or cried too long

                       D                   G
Except your mommas new boy friend, he went on and on

           A
while they laid you in the ground.

D                             G                           A 
Right about then a truck back fired and all the boys they flinched their heads. 

                      D        G                          A
Yeah that shook me up I guess. I've been home a month now and I still can't get no rest.
Chorus:
D                              G               A 
I'm standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend

D                           G                   A
Nothing much to say, except sorry it turned out like it did

G                   A                       D 
Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American Flags in the wind

G                      A                         D     
Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
Break: D G A Verse 2:
D                   G                    A
Barbecue grills and lawn mowers, kids on four-wheelrs and ice cream trucks

                          D         G                          A                                 
Yeah they buried you on a Saturday, Georgia lost to Tennessee, you would have liked that I know

D                           G                            A
Afterwords we went to O'Charley's, Your momma's boyfriend got drunk saying, it should have been me

D              G        
I wish it was, him I mean.

A    
So I went home got drunk and watched the TV
Chorus:
D                              G               A 
I'm standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend

D                        G                   A
Nothing much to say, except sorry it turned out like it did

G                   A                       D 
Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American Flags in the wind

G                      A                         D     
Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
Bridge:
Bm                                                           Em    A     D    
Hey there's only one road that leads out of this town and it comes right back

Bm                                       A
So I just drive in circles, circles, and I try not to blow my stack

F#m                                  G
Out at the mall and the motor mile, it's just as lonesome as a sea

D                                                A
Man the girls 'round here, the girls 'round here are just as hopeless as they used to be
Break: D G A D G A Verse 3:
             D           G                        A
Oh go on and tie another yellow ribbon around the ole hackberry tree

                D
and tamp the dirt down

G                     A
Y'all go on home now, there aint nothing here to see
Chorus:
D                              G               A 
I'm standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend

D                        G                   A
Nothing much to say, except sorry it turned out like it did

G                   A                       D 
Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American Flags in the wind

G                      A                         D     
Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend

G                      A                         D
Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
D G A D G A