Black Diamond Strings 
Guy Clark
Capo 2  key of B (Dublin Blues CD track 2)


Chorus  
 D
Black Diamond Strings  
 A
Black Diamond Strings  
      E
Drinkin’ 1 W. Harper  
        A
Playin’ Black Diamond Strings  
D 
Black Diamond Strings  
         A      
Are like white flour and grits  
 
You play Black Diamond Strings  
            E           A 
‘Cause it’s all you can get  
 
  
 A                          D       A
Black Diamond Strings on a Catalog Guitar  
                           E          A
That’s pretty high cotton whoever you are  
                                        D          A
You break one you change one, that’s as good as it gets  
                               E            A
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 Frauline  
 
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