Guy Clark Black Diamond Strings chords

Black Diamond Strings by Guy Clark

Black Diamond Strings
Guy Clark
Dublin Blues 

Capo 2  key of B if you want to. 
 
 
Chorus   
 D 
Black Diamond Strings   
 A 
Black Diamond Strings   
      E 
Drinkin’ 1 W. Harper   
        A 
Playin’ Black Diamond Strings   
D  
Black Diamond Strings   
         A       
Are like white flour and grits   
  
You play Black Diamond Strings   
            E           A  
‘Cause it’s all you can get   
  

Verse 1
  
 A                          D       A 
Black Diamond Strings on a Catalog Guitar   
                           E          A 
That’s pretty high cotton whoever you are   
                                        D          A 
You break one you change one, that’s as good as it gets   
                               E            A 
You can play all year long on two or three sets  


Verse 2 
  
   
A                  D         A 
J.W. Crowell was a hell of a man   
                                 E         A
He played two nights a week in a hillbilly band   
                              D         A
He played at the Ice House on Telephone Road   
                              E           A
He played in the yard just to lighten his load     
   
  
Chorus   

 D 
Black Diamond Strings   
 A 
Black Diamond Strings   
      E 
Drinkin’ 1 W. Harper   
        A 
Playin’ Black Diamond Strings   
D  
Black Diamond Strings   
         A       
Are like white flour and grits   
  
You play Black Diamond Strings   
            E           A  
‘Cause it’s all you can get   


Verse 3 


A       D         A 
Hey J.W play that Frauline   
                         E             A 
Let Rodney sit in, hell, he’s goin’ on nine   
                                   D            A
His fingers are bleedin’, but he’s keepin’ good time   
                               E                A
Playin’ Black Diamond Strings, he’ll never quit tryin’   
  
   
N/C  
   (spoken) Causette told ‘em both   
 
Verse 4


A                    D               A
You boys pack it up, it’s time to go home   
                                   E         A
We got church in the mornin’, it’s comin’ up dawn   
                     D            A
Don’t make me say it again or I’m gone   
                               E                 A
You can stay here forever, but you’re gonna walk home   


Chorus   

 D 
Black Diamond Strings   
 A 
Black Diamond Strings   
      E 
Drinkin’ 1 W. Harper   
        A 
Playin’ Black Diamond Strings   
D  
Black Diamond Strings   
         A       
Are like white flour and grits   
  
You play Black Diamond Strings   
            E           A  
‘Cause it’s all you can get