Written by Ketch Secor
Intro: C F G G C F G G verse 1: C F G G The service went the way it should have gone no one talked to loud or cried too long except your momma's new C F G G boyfriend. He went on and on and on about the country and the hero you'd become. C F G G Well Just about then a truck backfired and all the boys they flinched their heads. Yea it choked me C F G G up I guess. Been home a month now and I still can't get no rest.Harmonica Break: C F G G C F G G verse 2: (you will have to figure out the timing on that third line, he crams a lot of words in) C F G G Barbecue grills and lawnmowers kids on four-wheelers ice cream trucks Yea they buried you on a C F G G Saturday, Georgia lost to Tennessee you would have liked that I know C F G G Afterwards we went to OCharleys and your mommas boyfriend got drunk saying it should of been me well I wish it C F G G was, him I mean so I went home and got drunk and watched the TVC F G G Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend. C F G G Nothing much to say except sorry it turned out like it did F G C F Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American flags in the wind. F G C Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friendC F G G Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend. C F G G Nothing much to say except sorry it turned out like it did F G C F Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American flags in the wind. F G C Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
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