Granny Song Chords
Granny Song by Billy Connolly is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, F, Am and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C G C
A-dee-oo-leh-hee yeh-hee oh-leh-hee-oooh
G C
Yes my granny is a cripple in Nashville
F C
This story I tell you is true
F C
One day, she went out on her wheelchair
G
Never knowin' it had a loose screw
G
Well a wheel came off of that wheelchair,
C
friends
F C
And on three wheels it trundled away
F C Am
And it trundled right over the edge of a cliff
D7 G C
In an old sea-side town, far away
C G C
A-dee-oo-leh-hee yeh-hee oh-leh-hee-oooh
G C
Now the boy who was pushin the wheelchair
F C
Was a little blind orphan called Joe
F C
And he said "Oh where is my granny?"
D7 G
"And where did that damn wheelchair go?"
G
Well he ran off to search
C
for that wheelchair, friends
F C
But his sightless eyes led him astray
F C Am
And he ran right over the edge of the cliff
D7 G C
In that old sea-side town, far away
C G C
A-dee-oo-leh-hee yeh-hee oh-leh-hee-oooh
G C
Well somebody sent for a doctor
F C
And an ambulance too, it was called
F
And the people who lived in the
C
neighbourhood
G
Stood around and they cried, how they bawled
C
Well the doctor and the ambulance came rushing, friends
F C
They were rushing from two different ways
F
And they crashed with a biff,
C Am
and shot over the cliff
D7 G C
In that old sea-side town, far away
C G C
A-dee-oo-leh-hee yeh-hee oh-leh-hee-oooh
G C
Well they sent for brave father Maloney
F C
To pray for the poor soles they pose
F C
And he said "Well now that we're gathered
here good people"
G
"Well we might as well pray I suppose!"
C
But, too many people had gathered
F C
And the edge of the cliff gave way
F
And they dropped with a yell
C Am
They all shot straight to hell
D7 G
In that old, sea-side town,
G C
so terribly far away
C G C
A-dee-oo-leh-hee yeh-hee oh-leh-hee-oooh