C
They told him to just fade away,
    F                  G                 C
His time had past, and all his kind were dyin'


[Verse 1]
       C                                              F
But he remembers when Hank played the Opry, high as a kite
      G                                    C
While Patsy Cline was out walkin' after midnight
        C                                        F
Well he saw the torch being passed from Lefty to Merle
            G                                                          C
Now there's so called successors, but it's hard to find a hero in this world


[Chorus]
            C                        F
There ain't no country music for old men
G                                                C     G
All of the good ones have died or just packed it in
            C                                          F
Now there's posers and losers and would-be outlaws who only know how to pretend
                G                        C
But there ain't no country music for old men


[Verse 2]
       C                                                F
He was sittin' on a bar stool the first time he heard Jolene
  G                                      C      G
A song by the prettiest angel he'd ever seen
C                                                F
Back when Nashville was swingin' and makin' them deals
      G                          G                C
While Buck was out strollin' the streets of Bakersfield


[Chorus]
            C                        F
There ain't no country music for old men
G                                                C     G
All of the good ones have died or just packed it in
            C                                          F
Now there's posers and losers and would-be outlaws who only know how to pretend
                G                        C
But there ain't no country music for old men


[Verse 3]
F                                     C
Loretta and Conway, Jones and Tammy Wynette
Am
Songs about prisons, passion and whiskey
D                       G              F  G  C  D
That's as good as it's ever gonna get (key change to D)


[Verse 4]
     D                                                   G
They call him nostalgic with a permanent case of the blues
        A                                             D      A
He just walks around wonderin' who's gonna fill their shoes
        D                                                 G
Lookin' back on the great ones we've lost, he says why so soon?
           A                                          D
He shed an ocean of tears on the graves of Johnny and June


[Chorus]
               D                     G
There ain't no country music for old men
A                                                D     G
All of the good ones have died or just packed it in
            D                                          G
Now there's posers and losers and would-be outlaws who only know how to pretend
                A                        D
But there ain't no country music for old men
             A                        D
There ain't no country music for old men