The Death Of Jimmy Martin

[Intro ] G C F G C Verse Am There's a hound dog running all alone through the piney woods F C Lord, his howling tears the soul out of me Am There's a jay bird calling out a funeral dirge F C In ancient harmony Verse Am F Barb'ry Allen rolled over in a grave all morning C F G With roses growing out of her head C F C F Hey, god's gonna burn down Nashville, boys C 'Cause Jimmy Martin's dead G C Ah, the great Jimmy Martin's gone dead Verse F C You got twenty-twenty vision, but you're walking 'round blind G C You Grand Ole Opry fools F C With your hypocritic judgments and your self-righteous snobbery G C Your goddamned false hearted rule Verse Am F You scorned Hank Williams, you shunned Jimmy Martin C F G Boys who sang with tongues on fire C F C So god's gonna burn down your Grand Ole Opry F C Hear the screams of the hypocrites and liars G C 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 Am F C 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 C F C F C G C Am F C G C F C F C G C Verse F C Yeah, don't call me no country singer G C Those are poison words to me F C 'Cause I ain't heard a good country song G C Since Nineteen Seventy-Three Verse Am F Ah, the king of bluegrass has died for your sins C F G The whore of Babylon is sleeping in your bed C F C F 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