Key: Ab major
Verse 1
B
E
B
A#aug
E
F#
B
E
When it rains five days,
G#m
F#
D#m
and the skies turn black at night
Bm
C#m
B
E
I said
when it rains five days
F#
B
E
B
and the skies turn black at night,
E
B
E
G#m
E
C#
E
you know there's trouble
E
F#
Everything
Verse 2
B
E
ain't right
B
F#
B
G#m
B
E
Well, when I woke up this morning
Verse 3
B
C#
B
E
Yes, when I
woke, when I woke,
when I woke up this morning,
G#dim
E
I couldn't even get out of my door,
G#m
B
G#m
E
C#m
E
there was enough trouble
F#
B
to make a poor girl
wonder where she ought to go.
E
C#m
F#
B
By that time, they rode a little boat,
G#m
B
across the pond.
B
E
Oh, they rode a little boat,
rode a little boat,
rode a little boat, rode a little boat
B
E
B
E
B
About five miles across the pond
G
G#dim
E
C#
Yeah, I packed all my clothes
E
F#
and throwed them in
E
C#m
F#
B
Then they rode me right along
E
F#
C#
Cause my house done fell
B
E
down low
F#
B
E
B
F#
And I can't live there no more
Interlude 1
E
F#
B
E
B
E
Bm
E
E
B
D
C#m
E
F#
E
F#
B
E
B
Verse 4
B
E
B
E
somebody please tell me
Tell me, where's it for a
B
F#
E
Yeah! Can't you see I'm tired?
Can't you see I'm tired?
Can't you see I'm tired?
Yeah!
C#
E
But if I ever get my nerve settled down
C#m
F#
I believe that I'm safe,
E
B
safe an d sound.
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