Great song off the OCMS Remedy Album. It was released on Memorial Day 2014. In the Key of D with a
simple 4/4 time rhythm. The verses are 4 counts of D, 4 counts of G, 8 counts of A. This repeats pretty
much throughout the song. The bridge is a bit different, but if you listen you will hear the rhythm.
Hope you guys enjoy.
Intro:
D G A
D G A
Verse 1:
D G A
The service went the way it should have gone, no one talk too loud or cried too long
D G
Except your mommas new boy friend, he went on and on
A
while they laid you in the ground.
D G A
Right about then a truck back fired and all the boys they flinched their heads.
D G A
Yeah that shook me up I guess. I've been home a month now and I still can't get no rest.
Chorus:
D G A
I'm standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
D G A
Nothing much to say, except sorry it turned out like it did
G A D
Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American Flags in the wind
G A D
Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
Break:
D G A
Verse 2:
D G A
Barbecue grills and lawn mowers, kids on four-wheelrs and ice cream trucks
D G A
Yeah they buried you on a Saturday, Georgia lost to Tennessee, you would have liked that I know
D G A
Afterwords we went to O'Charley's, Your momma's boyfriend got drunk saying, it should have been me
D G
I wish it was, him I mean.
A
So I went home got drunk and watched the TV
Chorus:
D G A
I'm standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
D G A
Nothing much to say, except sorry it turned out like it did
G A D
Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American Flags in the wind
G A D
Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
Bridge:
Bm Em A D
Hey there's only one road that leads out of this town and it comes right back
Bm A
So I just drive in circles, circles, and I try not to blow my stack
F#m G
Out at the mall and the motor mile, it's just as lonesome as a sea
D A
Man the girls 'round here, the girls 'round here are just as hopeless as they used to be
Break:
D G A
D G A
Verse 3:
D G A
Oh go on and tie another yellow ribbon around the ole hackberry tree
D
and tamp the dirt down
G A
Y'all go on home now, there aint nothing here to see
Chorus:
D G A
I'm standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
D G A
Nothing much to say, except sorry it turned out like it did
G A D
Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American Flags in the wind
G A D
Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
G A D
Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
D G A
D G A
