G                  G
Well I lived next door to royalty
   C                  F
A skinny little kid just like me
G                       C
We'd go hunt down the honeybees
  F
Back in the days gone by


[Verse 2]
      G                         G
His daddy had a car that would go sometimes
         C                F
That'd engine roar, he'd let us ride
   G                       C
Barbed wire fences flying far behind
  F
Back in the days gone by


[Chorus]
   C    F
Tupelo rest my soul
  G
Take me to the river
  G
I've been delivered
  C        F                  G
Into the hands that reach to hold
   C     F
Tupelo rock 'n roll
  G
Sing it in the kitchen
     G
And pass the ammunition
  C             F               G
Turn all your tears of blue to gold


[Verse 3]
   G                 G
I was a Pepsi Cola factory man
  C                     F
Made my living with my own two hands
  G                   C
That skinny kid moved up to Graceland
  F
Back in the days gone by


[Verse 4]
    G                  G
We slept beneath our hopes and wishes
  C              F
Forty two years, me and the missus
G                  C
My memories are my greatest riches
      F
From back in the days gone by


[Chorus]
  C     F
Tupelo rest my soul
  G
Take me to the river
  G
I've been delivered
  C       F                   G
Into the hands that reach to hold
 C      F
Tupelo rock 'n roll
 G
Sing it in the kitchen
     G
And pass the ammunition
  C             F               G
Turn all your tears of blue to gold


[Bridge]
 C                    F
Time moves on like a melody
    G
And I can hear those memories sing
  C                   F
Time moves on like a melody
    G
And I can hear those memories sing
  C                    F
Time moves on like a melody
    G
And I can hear those memories sing
  C                    F
Time moves on like a melody
    G
And I can hear those memories sing


[Chorus]
 C      F
Tupelo rest my soul
  G
Take me to the river
  G
I've been delivered
  C        F                  G
Into the hands that reach to hold
  C     F
Tupelo rock 'n roll
  G
Sing it in the kitchen
     G
And pass the ammunition
 C              F               G
Turn all your tears of blue to gold


[Outro]
  C             F               G
Turn all your tears of blue to gold
  C             F               G
Turn all your tears of blue to gold