Old Crow Medicine Show – Old Hickory (Guitar)

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[Intro] A Bm D A A Bm D A [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 1]
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 an 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
[Interlude] A Bm D A [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 2]
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 an 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
[Interlude] A Bm D A A Bm D A [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 3]
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 an 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