Standard (EADGBE)

 I got my first guitar when I turned 13

 Daddy said here ya go son, now you can play like me

 I got that honkytonk fever deep down in my bones

From that old maple guitar and a good country song

I remember the dry heat and the Mojave sand

Just me and that guitar and some old marine friends

And about the only thing that got us through 29 Palms

Was an old maple guitar and some good country songs

Chorus

 Lord that old maple guitar gots wood grains of gold

 And that good country music just pours from your soul

 And it'll echo in the air way till god calls us home

 With an old maple guitar and a good country song

"Take it up boys" Change key to E

 I was stranded in Birmingham and down on my luck

 Cause my wife took my money and then a bank took my truck

 Oh but theres two things I still have that they better leave alone

Thats that old maple guitar and these good country songs

Chorus

 Lord that old maple guitar gots wood grains of gold

 And that good country music it just pours out from the soul

 And it'll echo in the air way till god calls me home

 With an old maple guitar and a good country song

And a good ole Hank Williams country song