Guy Clark Black Diamond Strings Lyrics

Black Diamond Strings Lyrics

Chorus 



Black Diamond Strings 

Black Diamond Strings 

Drinkin1 W. Harper 

PlayinBlack Diamond Strings 

Black Diamond Strings 

Are like white flour and grits 

You play Black Diamond Strings 

�ause it抯 all you can get  



Black Diamond Strings on a Catalog Guitar 

That抯 pretty high cotton whoever you are 

You break one you change one, that抯 as good as it gets 

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 



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Hey J.W play that frogline 

Let Rodney sit in, hell, he抯 goinon nine 

His fingers are bleedin but he抯 keepingood time 

PlayinBlack Diamond Strings, he抣l never quit tryin 



Causette told æ…¹m both 

You boys pack t up, it抯 time to go home 

We got church in the mornin it抯 cominup dawn 

Don抰 make me say it again or I抦 gone 

You can stay here forever, but you抮e gonna walk home