A                                  D
In a cabin on a hill just east of Asheville
A                                E
My love for words and melody was born
A                          A7
My father’s father played for me,
        D
with a Martin box across his knee
A                          F#m
And he mixed his songs with hot licks,
     E               A
And sips of barley corn

[Verse 2]

A                                       D
Well, I worshipped every foot of ground he walked on
A                                 E
I spent seven boyhood summers by his side
A                           A7
It was up and down tobaccer rows,
        D
Till the evening sun was sinking low
A                       F#m
And we’d join around the table,
       E              A
in the glow of supper time

[Chorus]
A                                      D
And I’d say, “Grandpa get your guitar, let’s sit out in the backyard,
A                          B or B7                          A
You can sing the one about going home to that mansion in the sky
A                 A7           D                   A           F#m                A
Way down after sunset, you can take me up to my bed, laugh and call me sleepy head and sing
E         A
me a lullaby”

[Verse 3]

A                                     D
There’s a weather beaten rocker on the front porch
A                                      E
And a spiderweb now hanging ‘cross the door
A                    A7
A million dusty memories,
     D
that pull me back across the years,
A                           F#m
Swear I can hear his broke hands,
E                 A
walking cross the floor

[Bridge]

A        D            A
When we meet again up yonder
A
On that shining blissful day
A           D               A
Gonna wrap my arms around him
      B7          E
And then I’m gonna say,

Repeat Chorus

[Tag]
A
Grandpa get your guitar
      E           A
And sing me a lullaby