To play in the original key tune down a half step and play in G major (the original key is F♯ major)
Granddaddy's Gun
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GGCadd9Cadd9
P1:
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GCDCG
S1:
It sits above the mantel on a couple rusty nails It ain't worth a lot of money and it damn sure ain't for sale The good Lord only knows all the stories it could tell my Granddaddy's gun
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GCDCG
S2:
He bought it new out of the Sears and Robuck catalog And it shot a many a shells over the back of an old bird dog And it backed a burglar down when grandma took the safety off Granddaddy's gun
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CGDEmiCGDCGDEmiCGCGDDGC
R1:
It's just an old double barrel twelve, the stock is cracked and it kick's like hell Wouldn't mean what it mean's to me to no one I can still hear his voice when I put it to my shoulder a guns like a woman son, it's all how you hold her He taught me a whole lot more than how to hunt And one of these days I'll pass it on to my grandson my Granddaddy's gun x---x---x---x x---x---x---x
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GCDCG
S3:
He handed it to me on the day I turned thirteen With a half shot box of shells and a kit to keep it clean I keep a picture in the case of that sweet old man and me Granddaddy's gun
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CGDEmiCGDCGDEmiCGCGDD
R1:
It's just an old double barrel twelve, the stock is cracked and it kick's like hell Wouldn't mean what it mean's to me to no one I can still hear his voice when I put it to my shoulder a guns like a woman son, it's all how you hold her He taught me a whole lot more than how to hunt And one of these days I'll pass it on to my grandson my Granddaddy's gun
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CGDCGD
M1:
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CGDCGDCGDCGDCGD
B1:
There's a long beard hanging on the livin' room wall that I got with a box call and Granddaddy's gun There's a shot up sign out there on forty nine that me and Billy Joe shot up one night With Granddaddy's gun x---x---x---x x---x---x---x
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GC
D1:
It sits above the mantel on a couple rusty nails It ain't worth a lot of money and it damn sure ain't for sale