Black Diamond Strings Guy Clark

[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