Artist/Band: Russell Tom Tabs
Song: The Death Of Jimmy Martin Tab
The Death Of Jimmy Martin
By Tom Russell
3/17/2010
D Bm
There's a hound dog running all alone through the piney woods
G D
Lord his howlin' tears the soul out of me
D Bm
There's a jay bird calling up a funeral dirge
G D
In ancient harmony
Bm G
Barb'ry Allen rolled over in a grave all morning
D G A
With roses growing out of her head
D G D
Hey, God's gonna burn down Nashville, boys
G D
Cause Jimmy Martin's dead
D A D
Ah, the great Jimmy Martin's gone dead
D G D
You got twenty twenty vision but you're walkin' 'round blind
D A D
You Grand Ole Opry fools
D G D
With your hypocritic judgments and your self righteous snobbery
D A D
Your God Damned false hearted rule
Bm G
You scorned Hank Williams, you shunned Jimmy Martin,
D G A
Boys who sang with tongues of fire.
D G D
So god's gonna burn down your Grand Ole Opry
G D
Hear the screams of the hypocrites and liars
D A D
They feel safer now that Jimmy has expired
Chorus:
A G
Run, Pete, run, your master's callin' you,
D G A
He's waiting on up ahead
Bm G
Don't look back, Nashville's burnin' down
D A D
Jimmy Martin's dead
D A D
Oh, The great Jimmy Martin's gone dead
Yeah, don't call me no country singer
Those are poison words to me
'Cause I ain't heard a good country song
Since 1973
The King of Bluegrass has died for your sins
The W***e of Babylon is sleepin' in your bed
So God's gonna burn down Nashville tonight, boys,
Cause Jimmy Martin's dead
The great Jimmy Martin's gone dead
Chorus
There's a hound dog runnin' all alone through the piney woods
The howling tears the soul out of me
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