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Intro 1
(E minor) (C major) (E minor) (C major)
(B major) (E minor) (C major) (E minor) (C major)
(E minor) (C major) (E minor) (C major)
(B major) (E minor)
Verse 1
(E minor) [ (C major)
unreleased (E minor) (C major) (E minor)
(C major) (E minor) (C major) (E minor)
(C major) (E minor) (C major) (B major) (E minor)
(C major) (E minor)
Some people think that America
in (C major) vented the blues
(B major) A (E minor) few people doubt that America
(C major) is the home of the (B major) blues. (E minor)
Because the musicians have
(C major) gone all over the world
(E minor) carrying the blues message.
And the world has snapped (C major) its fingers
and (E minor) tapped its feet right along
with the blues, folks.
But the (C major) blues has always
(B major) been totally (E minor) American.
As Amer (C major) ican as apple (E minor) pie.
As American as the (C major) blues.
As American as (E minor) apple pie.
The question is, why?
(C major) Why (F major) should (E minor) the blues be
so at home here?
Well, (C major) America provided
(E minor) the atmosphere
America (C major) (E minor) provided the atmosphere
for the blues and the blues was (C major) born
The (E minor) blues was born on the
American wilderness
The (C major) blues (E minor) was born on the beaches
where the slave ships docked
(C major) Born on (E minor) the slave man's auction block
The blues (C major) was born
(F major) and car (E minor) ried on the howling wind
The blues (C major) grew up a (E minor) slave
The blues grew up as proper (C major) ty,
the (E minor) blues grew up in Nat
Turner visions,
the blues (C major) grew up in Harriet
(E minor) Tubman courage,
the blues grew up in small town (C major) deprivation,
(E minor)
the blues grew up in big city isolation,
(C major) the blues grew up in (E minor) the nightmares
of the white man,
the blues grew up in the (C major) blues singing
of Bessie (E minor) and Billy and Ma,
the blues grew up in (F major) Satch (E minor) mo's horn,
on Duke's piano,
in Langston's poetry,
(F major) on Robeson's (E minor) baritone,
the point is that the
The is grown, (C major) the (F major) (E minor) blues is grown now,
full grown
And you can trace (F major) the evolution (E minor) of the blues
on a parallel line
with the evolution of this coun (C major) try
From (F major) (E minor) Pembroke Rock to Acid Rock,
from 13 (F major) states (C major) to Water (E minor) gate
The blues is grown, but not the (C major) home
(E minor) The blues is grown,
but the country has not
The (C major) (E minor) blues remembers
everything the country forgot
(C major) It's the (E minor) bicentennial year,
and the blues is cel (C major) ebrating
a birthday (E minor)
and it's a bicentennial of (C major) blues. (E minor)
applause (C major) (F major) (E minor) (C major) (F major)
(E minor) America has got the blues
and it's a bicentennial edi (C major) tion.
The (E minor) blues you might amuse you,
but make no mistake,
it's (C major) a bicentennial (B major) year,
(E minor) a year of hysterical importance,
(F major) a year of histor (E minor) ical
importance. (C major) (E minor)
Ripped (C major) off like the donated (E minor) moments
from the past
(C major) 200 years (E minor) ago this evening
200 (C major) years ago (E minor) last evening
And what about now? (C major)
(E minor) The blues is now
The blues has grown up
(C major) and the country has not
(E minor) The country has been ripped off
Ripped (C major) off (B major) like the Indi (E minor) ans
Ripped off like jazz
Ripped (C major) off (F major) like nature, (E minor)
ripped off like Christmas
(F major) Manhandled (E minor) by media overkill
Goosed by aspiring (C major) vice presidents
Violated (E minor) by commercial corporations
(C major) A (E minor) bicentennial year,
the year the symbol
Transformed (C major) into the (E minor) B .U .I. Centennial
By a car, (F major) by a flag, (E minor) by a map (F major)
Until (E minor) the public en masse
has been bludgeoned
into Bicen (C major) tenni (F major) al Submis (E minor) sion
or Bicentennial Suspicion.
(F major) I fall (E minor) into the latter category.
It's a blues year, (C major)
and Amer (E minor) ica has got the blues.
It's got (C major) the blues because
of (E minor) partial deification
of partial accomplishments
over (C major) partial periods (E minor) of time.
Halfway justice, (C major) halfway liberty,
(E minor) halfway equality.
It's a half -ass (C major) year. (B major) (E minor) (C major) (E minor)
And (C major) we would be silly (G major) in
all (E minor) our knowledge,
in all our self -righteous knowledge,
(C major) when we sit back (E minor) and laugh and mock
the things that happen in our (C major) lives,
(E minor) to accept anything less than the truth
(C major) about (E minor) this bicentennial year.
And the (C major) truth relates to 200 (B major) years
(E minor) of people and ideas getting by.
(C major) It got (E minor) by George Washington
The ideas (C major) of justice,
liber (E minor) ty, and equality
Got told by George Washington
Slave (C major) (E minor) owner general (C major) (E minor)
(C major) (E minor) (C major) (E minor)
(C major)
(E minor) (C major) (E minor)
(C major) (E minor) (C major) (E minor)
(C major) (E minor) (C major) the
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