Black Diamond Strings

[Chorus]

Black Diamond strings

Black Diamond strings

Drinking 1 W. Harper

Playing Black Diamond strings

Black Diamond strings

Are like white flour and grits

You play Black Diamond strings

'Cause it's all you can get

[Verse 1]

Black Diamond Strings on a catalogue guitar

That‘s pretty high cotton whoever you are

You break one, you change one, that‘s 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

And he played in the yard just to lighten his load

[Chorus]

Black Diamond strings

Black Diamond strings

Drinking 1 W. Harper

Playing Black Diamond strings

Black Diamond strings

Are like white flour and grits

You play Black Diamond strings

'Cause it's all you can get

[Verse 2]

Say hey, J.W, come on, play that frog line

Let old Rodney sit in, hell, he's going on nine

His fingers are bleeding, but he's keeping good time

Playing Black Diamond strings, and he'll never quit trying

And Cosette, she told 'em both

She said, "You boys pack it up, it's time to go home

We got church in the morning and it's coming up dawn

Don‘t make me say it again or I'm gone

You can stay here forever, but you‘re gonna walk home"

[Chorus]

Black Diamond strings

Black Diamond strings

Drinking 1 W. Harper

Playing Black Diamond strings

Black Diamond strings

Are like white flour and grits

You play Black Diamond strings

'Cause it's all you can get

[Chorus]

Black Diamond strings

Black Diamond strings

Drinking 1 W. Harper

Playing Black Diamond strings

Black Diamond strings

Are like white flour and grits

You play Black Diamond strings

'Cause it's all you can get