{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":521513,"song":"Cedartown Georgia","artist":"Waylon Jennings","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/521513-cedartown-georgia-chords-by-waylon-jennings/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/521513?type=chord","rating":4.8518,"votes":28,"content":"CEDARTOWN GEORGIA\r\nas recorded on CEDARTOWN GEORGIA, a 1971 album by WAYLON JENNINGS\r\n\r\nNotes: Use single downstrokes for D A E and D E A parts,\r\nI put the changes as accurately as possible in relation\r\nto the lyrics. I use a single B chord and let ring during the words,\r\nthen start strumming again at E (after bass riff).\r\n\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n[ch]D[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]     [ch]E[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI got a gal in Cedartown Georgia[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]                                  [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                                     [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nShe never had much, just a sharecropper's daughter[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nBut I married her and took her down to New Orleans[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                         N.C.                            [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nGot a little house in the South French Quarter (bass riff)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nGot a job hookin' bales, load em' on a steamboat[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]E[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI give her seven days pay, and the next day I'm broke[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                                   [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhen she ain't sleeping all day, she's a primpin'[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#[/ch]\r\nEvery evening when the sun goes down[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                         N.C.                   [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nShe starts a swarmin' on 'Orlean town (bass riff)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                 [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWalkin' into work this morning at daybreak[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                                            [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI caught her with the tall lord dandy from New King Bay[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                                    [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nShe walked right by and she looked right through me[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nI made up my mind what I'm a gonna do[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                        N.C.                          [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nEased in a pawnshop and bought a twenty-two (bass riff)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                                     [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI watched as the room clerk gave them a room key[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                  [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nStanding outside I could read room twenty-three[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                                 [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTonight I'll put her on a train for Georgia[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nGonna be a lotta kin folks squallin' and grievin'[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]                        N.C.                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\n'Cause that Cedartown gal ain't breathin' (bass riff)[/tab]\r\n[ch]E[/ch]                                  [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]","plain_text":"CEDARTOWN GEORGIA\nas recorded on CEDARTOWN GEORGIA, a 1971 album by WAYLON JENNINGS\n\nNotes: Use single downstrokes for D A E and D E A parts,\nI put the changes as accurately as possible in relation\nto the lyrics. I use a single B chord and let ring during the words,\nthen start strumming again at E (after bass riff).\n\n\n[Intro]\nD     A     E\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\nE                                  D   A   E","chords":["D","A","E","B","F#","C","B7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}