G 
Well they gave me this old coat 
             C              G 
Said it will keep you might warm 
        C                   G 
It will see you through the winter 
          A         D 
It?s your by God uniform 
     G 
So I wear it everyday 
      C              G 
And I sleep in it at night 
         C               G 
Now it?s twenty shade of grey 
        A                    D 
And the waist has shrunk too tight 
        B                 Em 
And the bottoms caked and muddy 
        B                Em 
And the buttons are half gone 
    A    B            C 
But just like you and me 
     C#m                    D 
This Old Grey Coat wears on. 
 
Chorus: 
           G                B 
And when I die in this grey coat 
          Em                    A 
I?m gonna march though Heaven?s door 
                           B 
I?m gonna walk up to Saint Peter 
              C                D 
And tell him, send me back for more 
              G                 B 
Cause I?ll be damn if I?ll just sit around 
    Em               A 
Why you boys win the war 
            G    B   Em 
Cause even, when I?m dead 
              G   B    Em 
Shot full of, Yankee?s lead 
          A       B        C       C#m  D (Stop) 
And every part of me keeps hangin? by a thread 
                 G    C G C 
Of This Old Grey Coat. 
 
       G 
When I think of all the places 
         C                G 
This old coat and me have been 
            C                G 
Through the fat and lean and in between 
       A                      D 
In the weak through thick and thin 
         G 
From the ballrooms down in Richmond 
       C             G 
To the top of Mary?s Height 
     C              G 
From Manasas to The Wilderness 
      A             D 
And a hundred other fights 
        B                Em 
Now the collars torn and tattered 
        B                  Em 
And the elbow?s wore clean through 
    A      B    C     
But put me in a pinch  
     C#m      D 
This Old Grey Coat will do. 
 
           G                B 
And when I die in this grey coat 
              Em           A 
And when they come to bury me 
                          B 
They commenced a speak of fightin? 
    C                    D 
And singin?, Mirror Lord Thieves 
             G                 B 
Well be damn sure I ain?t just sleepin? 
        Em             A           
Cause I flat out guarantee  
           G    B   Em 
That even, when I?m dead 
              G   B    Em 
Shot full of, Yankee?s lead 
         A        B             C     C#m   D    (Stop)                                       
That the toughest part of lives on in every shred 
                 G    C G C 
Of This Old Grey Coat. 
 
              G   B  Em 
Well you can, cut my throat 
         G    B  Em 
You can, sink my boat 
    A       B     C             C#m       D  
But you can never stop This Old Grey Coat. 
 
        G     B  Em 
When my bones do toll 
             G   B   Em 
When that?s, all she wrote 
A          B    C             C#m       D  
I?ll fight on inside This Old Grey Coat. 
 
Chorus2: 
           G                B 
And when I die in this grey coat 
          Em                    A 
I?m gonna march though Heaven?s door 
                           B 
I?m gonna walk up to Saint Peter 
              C                D 
And tell him, send me back for more 
              G                 B 
Cause I?ll be damn if I?ll just sit around 
    Em               A 
Why you boys win the war 
            G    B   Em 
Cause even, when I?m dead 
              G   B    Em 
Shot full of, Yankee?s lead 
            A       B        C      C#m    D (Stop) 
There ain?t nothin? that I?d rather wear instead 
                   G    C 
Than This Old Grey Coat. 
 
              G    C 
This Old Grey Coat 
        G    C 
I?ll go down 
                 G    C 
In This Old Grey Coat 
              G    F C G 
This Old Grey Coat.