Blind Willie McTell chords by Elliott Murphy, Iain Matthews

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Intro 1

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I've seen the ar
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row on the doorpost
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Saying this land is condemned
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All the way from New Or
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leans to Jerusalem
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And I've traveled through East Texas
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Where so many martyrs fell
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And I know no one can sing the blues
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like, like, let me tell you
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Well I heard that who -dowl singing
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As they were taking down the tents
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The stars above, the barren trees,
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they were his only audience.
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Oh, them charcoal gypsy maids,
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they can strut their feathers oh so well.
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But I know no one can sing the blues
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like, like William
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Tell I've seen them big
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plantations burn
And I can hear the crack
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ing of the whips
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Smell that sweet magnolia,
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trees are bloomin'
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And  I see the ghosts
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of slave machines
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And I can hear them tribes a -moanin'
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And I can hear the un dertaker's bell
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But I know no one can sing the blues
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like I  will in town
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There's a woman by the river
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With some fine young handsome man
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He's dressed up like a squire
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He's the bootleg
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whiskey in his hand
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And there's a chain gang
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on the highway
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Well, I can hear them rebels yell
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But I know no one can sing the blues
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like I will in town

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Interlude 1

Well, God is in His

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heaven
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And we all want what is His
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And I'm a -gazin' out the window
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Of the St. James Hotel
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And I know no one can sing the blues
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like I will pretend
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And I know no one can sing the blues
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like I  will pretend
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I   know no one can sing the blues
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like blind William
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Tell I know no one can sing the blues
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like blind William
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Tell You