Old Tyme Memry Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

D G Bm A G D A x2

When father bought the farm, we soG ld the farm

Mistook his blood for rustic charm Bm

Sold his ghost as an antique to the G

A city

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

GIn this woDrld there is no pA lace, such a pity

DThe barman shakes his head and G fills my glass

Says we’re Aliving in the D past

DWhy Gpreserve a Bmdying craft and it’s A misery?

GI sigh and Dsay “another A modern man,

DOne of Gproperty, not Bmland” A

DSo I hold Gout this Bm battered hand

Will you lA isten?

(Chorus)

Come sit doG wn, we’re lamenting

About yesteG rday’s sad ending

About theG water in my whiskey

And the brass GpassA ed off as gold

Another rouG nd, we’re descending

In to Old TG yme Mem’ry

Of a day when wood was wooden Bm

Silver silGver, A gold was gold

D

SGweet Bmhome Gwas DhoA me

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)