Old Tyme Memry Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

D G Bm A G D A x2

When father bought the farm, we soGld the farm

Mistook his blood for rustic charm Bm A

Sold his ghost as an antique to the G D

Acity

DKids today can’t hold a spaGde, rBmest in peace your weary Atrade

GIn this woDrld there is no pAlace, such a pity

DThe barman shakes his head and Gfills my glass

Says we’re Aliving in the Dpast

DWhy Gpreserve a Bmdying craft and it’s Amisery?

GI sigh and Dsay “another Amodern man,

DOne of Gproperty, not Bmland” A

DSo I hold Gout this Bmbattered hand

Will you lAisten?

(Chorus)

Come sit doGwn, we’re lamenting

About yesteGrday’s sad ending

About theG water in my whiskey

And the brass GpassAed off as gold

Another rouGnd, we’re descending

In to Old TGyme Mem’ry

Of a day when wood was wooden Bm G

Silver silGver, Agold was gold

D

SGweet Bmhome Gwas DhoAme

D G Bm G D A

So you’ve got a new stove in your second home

Runs on gas but looks like oak

Hell, it even gives off smoke and glowing embers

There’s a quilt hung on the wall reads ‘Home Sweet Home’

Below some wise word from Thoreau

And they call me ‘throwback’ when I cry “Remember!”

(Chorus)

And son these tools are artifacts

Endangered species left its tracks

Lock me up behind plastic glass in the city

‘Cos there’s no going back for me

This antique rustic’s eulogy

Shall be sold as folk artistry

Such a pity...

But I’ll never understand

Why they all only use those hands

To build a stead that will always stand in old time country

But settle for white rooms and hollow doors

Paper ceilings, padded floors

Luxury boxes where you’re stored in what was country.

(Chorus Twice)