We Don’t Grow Tobacco by Old Crow Medicine Show
Transcribed by DWdrummer67. Enjoy!
Note: On the D#m to A transition... it's easier to just play the barre A
on the 6th fret (pseudo 5th), by just moving your hand position up one string.
If you find it too difficult to transition to, just leave the D#m out. Still sounds good.
Tuning: Standard (capo 1st fret)
Intro: A, E, A
A
Hardest work that ever I done, bent beneath that burning sun
E A
Hauling that tobacco ‘round to cure
A
I would chop that wicked weed, till our hands and fingers bleed
E A
Working like a mule, maybe more
D A
We've been farming on this land… since eighteen hundred ten
F#m B E
Through flood, drought and pestilence and war
A
Now I sure am sad to say, that I’ve lived to see this day
E A
And we don't grow tobacco ‘round here no more
Chorus:
A D A
We don't grow…, we don't grow
E
Oh, it's still the only work we'll ever know
D D#m A
We don't grow…, we don't grow
E A
We don't grow tobacco ‘round here no more
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A
Grandpa told me this I know, change is comin’, won't be slow
E A
Knocking just like a thunder at the door
A
Plowed up fields are all around, empty barns just fallin’ down
E A
Well, Iron weeds comin’ up through the floor
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We Don’t Grow Tobacco (Page 2)
D A
Once we growed it by the pound, now the kids all moved to town
F#m B E
And all that's left are elderly and poor
A
Now I sure am sad to say, that I’ve lived to see this day
E A
And we don't grow tobacco ‘round here no more
Chorus:
A D A
We don't grow…, we don't grow
E
Oh, it's still the only work we'll ever know
D D#m A
Well, we don't grow…., we don't grow
E A
We don't grow tobacco ‘round here no more
Break:
D, A, F#m, B, E
A
Whoooo!!!, yes I sure am sad to say, this way of life has gone away
E A
Now that we don't grow tobacco ‘round here no more
D A E A… E-A…
Well, we don't grow tobacco ‘round here no more
