Decoration Day Chords

Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro chords

G [G/f#] Em

G [G/f#] Em

G [G/f#] Em

D Em

G [G/f#] Em

It’s Decoration Day

G [G/f#] Em

And I’ve a mind to roll a stone on his grave

G [G/f#] Em

But what would he say

D“Keeping me down, boy, won’t Emkeep me away”

G [G/f#] Em

It’s Decoration Day

G [G/f#] Em

And I knew the Hill Boys that put him away

G [G/f#] Em

But my Daddy wasn’t afraid

He said “We’d Dfight till the last Lawson’s Emlast living day”

I never knew how it all got started

A problem with Holland before we were born

And I don’t know the name of that boy we tied down

And beat till he just couldn’t walk anymore

But I know the caliber in Daddy’s chest

And I know what Holland Hill drives

The state let him go but I guess it was best

Cause nobody needs all us Lawsons alive

Daddy said one of the boys had come by

The lumber man’s favorite son

He said, “Beat him real good but don’t dare let him die”

And if you see Holland Hill run

Well I said, “they ain’t give us trouble no more

That we ain’t brought down on ourselves”

But a chain on my back and my ear to the floor

And I’ll send all the Hill Boys to hell, I’ll send all the Hill boys to hell

It’s Decoration Day

And I’ve got a family in Mobile Bay

And they’ve never seen my Daddy’s grave

But that don’t bother me, it ain’t marked anyway

Cause I got dead brothers in Lauderdale south

And I got dead brothers in east Tennessee

My Daddy got shot right in front of his house

He had no one to fall on but me

It’s Decoration Day

And I’ve got a mind to go spit on his grave

If I was a Hill, I’d have put him away

And I’d fight till the last Lawson’s last living day

I’d fight till the last Lawson’s last living day

I’d fight till the last Lawson’s last living day