Blues with a Rising Sun chords by John Gorka
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Dear Mr. House,
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this is a letter from a stranger
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Dear Mr. House,
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I know this letter is not news
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It's just a note I write to
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thank a man who
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Came from Lyon near the Yazoo
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And played the Delta blues
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I read somewhere that
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you knew Charlie Patton
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So many more now for
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gotten and gone
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And I read that you made
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records in Wisconsin
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Showed your slide to Robert Johnson
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That he took up your song
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I had heard that you used
to be a preacher
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And I've heard the
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way you played guitar
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I wonder now if the one
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tore up the other
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When Willie Brown was like a brother
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He played the country bar
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Well there were blues
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In Mississippi
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Oh there were blues
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For everyone
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There were blues
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In Mississippi
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They were blues with a rising sun
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Blues with a rising sun
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In 43, you left that tractor in the Delta
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And came to work for the
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New York Central line.
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When Willie passed,
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the music didn't matter,
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so you put away the patter,
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but it never left your mind.
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Or someone said that you had
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your share of good times.
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The good times said that they
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had their share of you.
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Me I say what I say doesn't matter
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but what you did changed
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the world for good.
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I know your life wasn't
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always made of music.
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I know your life has been so
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different from mine.
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Oh, when you sang,
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you could rattle all the windows
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And take all the things that I know
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And sing them from your home
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With the blues in Mississippi
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There were blues for everyone.
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There were blues in Mississippi,
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but they were blues with a rising sun.
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Blues with a rising sun.
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You You
Blues with a Rising Sun
John Gorka
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