The Death Of Jimmy Martin

	  		Intro 
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Verse 
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There's a hound dog running all alone through the piney woods 
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Lord, his howling tears the soul out of me 
                                         Am 
There's a jay bird calling out a funeral dirge 
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In ancient harmony 

Verse 
        Am                     F 
Barb'ry Allen rolled over in a grave all morning 
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With roses growing out of her head 
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Hey, god's gonna burn down Nashville, boys 
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'Cause Jimmy Martin's dead 
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Ah, the great Jimmy Martin's gone dead 

Verse 
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You got twenty-twenty vision, but you're walking 'round blind 
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You Grand Ole Opry fools 
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With your hypocritic judgments and your self-righteous snobbery 
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Your goddamned false hearted rule 

Verse 
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You scorned Hank Williams, you shunned Jimmy Martin 
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Boys who sang with tongues on fire 
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So god's gonna burn down your Grand Ole Opry 
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Hear the screams of the hypocrites and liars 
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They feel safer now that Jimmy has expired 

Chorus 
      G                    F 
Yeah, run, Pete, run, your master's calling you 
     C          F   G 
He's waiting on up ahead 
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Don't look back, Nashville's burning down 
      G        C 
Jimmy Martin's dead 
                    G             C 
Oh, the great Jimmy Martin's gone dead 

Instrumental 
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Verse 
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Yeah, don't call me no country singer 
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Those are poison words to me 
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'Cause I ain't heard a good country song 
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Since Nineteen Seventy-Three 

Verse 
        Am                    F 
Ah, the king of bluegrass has died for your sins 
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The whore of Babylon is sleeping in your bed 
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So, god's gonna burn down Nashville, boys 
                      C 
'Cause Jimmy Martin's dead 
                      G             C 
Yeah, the great Jimmy Martin's gone dead 

Chorus 
      G                    F 
Yeah, run, Pete, run, your master's calling you 
     C          F   G 
He's waiting on up ahead 
Am               F                        C 
Don't look back, Nashville's burning down 
      G        C 
Jimmy Martin's dead 
                    G             C 
Ah, the great Jimmy Martin's gone dead 

Outro 
                    F            C 
There's a hound dog running all alone through the piney woods 
    F                             C 
The howling tears the soul out of me