Key: E minor
Verse 1
on the door post
Saying this land is condemned
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D
All the way from New Or
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C
D
Em
leans to Jerusalem
I've traveled through East Texas,
where many a man has fell
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D
A
I know no one can sing the blues
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D
like Blimey Willie McTell
As they were taking down the tents
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D
The stars above the barren trees
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C
D
Em
were his only audience
And charcoal gypsy maidens
construct their famous will
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D
A
But nobody can sing the blues
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D
like Blind Willie McTell
Em
B
D
A
C
D
Em
See the
big plantations burnin'
Hear the crackin' of the whips
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D
Smell the sweet magnolia bloomin'
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C
D
Em
See the ghosts of slavery ship
I can hear them tribes a -moanin'
I can hear the undertaker's bell
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D
Yeah, nobody can sing the blues
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C
D
Em
like Blind Willie Mattel
There's a woman by the river
With some fine, young, handsome man
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D
He's dressed up like a squire
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C
D
Em
With bootleg whiskey in his hand
There's a chain gang on the highway,
I can hear them rebels yell
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D
A
And only one can sing good blues,
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D
that blind Willie McTell
and we all want what is his
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D
But power and greed and corruptible seed
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C
D
Em
seems to be all that there is
I'm gazing out the window
of the St. James Hotel
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D
And I know no one can sing the blues
A
C
D
Em
like Blind Willie Motel
You
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