The Death Of Jimmy Martin

Intro Verse There's a hound dog running all alone through the piney woods Lord, his howling tears the soul out of me There's a jay bird calling out a funeral dirge In ancient harmony Verse Barb'ry Allen rolled over in a grave all morning With roses growing out of her head Hey, god's gonna burn down Nashville, boys 'Cause Jimmy Martin's dead Ah, the great Jimmy Martin's gone dead Verse You got twenty-twenty vision, but you're walking 'round blind You Grand Ole Opry fools With your hypocritic judgments and your self-righteous snobbery Your goddamned false hearted rule Verse You scorned Hank Williams, you shunned Jimmy Martin Boys who sang with tongues on fire So god's gonna burn down your Grand Ole Opry Hear the screams of the hypocrites and liars They feel safer now that Jimmy has expired Chorus Yeah, run, Pete, run, your master's calling you He's waiting on up ahead Don't look back, Nashville's burning down Jimmy Martin's dead Oh, the great Jimmy Martin's gone dead Instrumental Verse Yeah, don't call me no country singer Those are poison words to me 'Cause I ain't heard a good country song Since Nineteen Seventy-Three Verse Ah, the king of bluegrass has died for your sins The whore of Babylon is sleeping in your bed So, god's gonna burn down Nashville, boys 'Cause Jimmy Martin's dead Yeah, the great Jimmy Martin's gone dead Chorus Yeah, run, Pete, run, your master's calling you He's waiting on up ahead Don't look back, Nashville's burning down Jimmy Martin's dead Ah, the great Jimmy Martin's gone dead Outro There's a hound dog running all alone through the piney woods The howling tears the soul out of me