Riley Green – Bury Me In Dixie (Guitar)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)
Key
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Versions (2)

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Chords

[Intro/Interlude] D A Bm A G
e|----------------------------|
B|-10-8-7-10-8-7-10-8-7-5-3---|
G|--------------------------4-| Played after the verses
D|----------------------------|
A|----------------------------|
E|----------------------------|
[Verse]
   D                            A
Mt Cheaha is my Everest and the Coosa is my Nile

   Bm                 A                 G
Alabama's where I was born and raised I think I'll stay a while

   D                         A
We sing about sweet home and Dixie Land Delight

        Bm            A                   G
We tell stories about what goes on in Montgomery at midnight

      Bm              A       G
Cause music row ain't only in Tennessee

          A *        D                           A
Won't you bury me in Dixie beneath these Alabama pines 

               Bm                    A              G
Take me to Tuscaloosa plant me under the fifty yard line

                 D                   A
Put me in an old truck Ford or Chevrolet 

                 Bm               A              G
Drive me down to Guntersville and park me by the lake

Bm                  A             G
Take me to Toomer's Corner put me under an oak tree

Bm              A               G
Give 'em toilet paper 'til they mummify me

     A *                              D  A  Bm A  G 
I'll rest in peace if they bury me in Dixie

     D                      A 
Well lay me by daddy and my grandpa just the same

       Bm              A             G
I want every headstone next to me to read my last name

D                                  A
Take me back to Jacksonville Drive me up mountain Street

Bm            A                 G
Lead me in to ole Paul Snow and show me to my seat

     Bm               A              G
When God decides it's time for us to meet

          A *        D                          A
Won't you bury me in Dixie where hard work is a plow

              Bm                A               G
I wish Robert E. Lee could come back and take a bow

                        D                             A
Or take me to the Flora-Bama, set me up at the mullet toss

           Bm                 A                  G
Everybody, drinks on me and I don't care what it cost

   Bm              A              G
Or take me to Talladega spread my ashes in turn three

Bm              A            G
Paint my casket black with a big ass number three

     A *                              D  A  Bm A  G 
I'll rest in peace if they bury me in Dixie
[Solo]
e|-------------------|------------------------------|
B|-------------------|------------------------------|
G|-11-9h11p9-9-10b-9-|-14-15b-14-11-14-11\-9-11-----| This part is quick and subtle.  It's easiest and sounds
D|-------------------|--------------------------9-7-| best to do a half bend on the half note rather than
A|-------------------|------------------------------| trying to pull a full bend on these quick notes.
E|-------------------|------------------------------|

     Bm        A            G *
Well God Bless Alabama from Sea to Tennessee

     A *                              D *
I'll rest in peace if they bury me in Dixie
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