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