Capo 2  key of B5
 
 
Chorus   
 D5 
Black Diamond Strings   
 A5 
Black Diamond Strings   
      E5 
Drinkin? 1 W. Harper   
        A5 
Playin? Black Diamond Strings   
D5  
Black Diamond Strings   
         A5       
Are like white flour and grits   
  
You play Black Diamond Strings   
            E5           A5  
?Cause it?s all you can get   
  
   
 A5                          D5       A5 
Black Diamond Strings on a Catalog Guitar   
                           E5          A5 
That?s pretty high cotton whoever you are   
                                        D5          A5 
You break one you change one, that?s as good as it gets   
                               E5            A5 
You can play all year long on two or three sets   
  
J.W. Crowell was a hell of a man   
  
He played two nights a week in a hillbilly band   
  
He played at the Ice House on Telephone Road   
  
He played in the yard just to lighten his load   
  
Chorus   
  
Hey J.W play that frogline   
  
Let Rodney sit in, hell, he?s goin? on nine   
  
His fingers are bleedin?, but he?s keepin? good time   
  
Playin? Black Diamond Strings, he?ll never quit tryin?   
N/C/ 
Causette told ?em both   
 
You boys pack t up, it?s time to go home   
  
We got church in the mornin?, it?s comin? up dawn   
  
Don?t make me say it again or I?m gone   
  
You can stay here forever, but you?re gonna walk home