Key: G
Introduction:
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
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