Bourgeois Blues (Studio) chords by Eric Bibb, Jean‐Jacques Milteau

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Verse 1
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Me and my wife went all over town
And everywhere we went,
people turned us down
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Lord, in a bush war town,
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ooh, in a bush war town
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I got the bush war blues
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Gon na spread the news all around
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Home of the brave
Land of the free
I don't wanna be mistreated
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By no bush war Z
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In a bush war town
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In a bush war town
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I got the bourgeois blues
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Gonna spread the news all around
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Well, me and my wife were
standing upstairs
Heard a white man say,
I don't want no niggas up there
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Lord, in a bushwalled town
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In a bushwalled town
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I got the Bushwa blues,
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gon' spread the news all day long
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Well, the white folks in Washington
sure know how
Call a colored man a nigger
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just to see him bow
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Lord, in a Bushwa town,
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it's a Bushwa town
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Got them bourgeois blues
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Gonna spread the news all
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around
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I tell the colored folks,
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y 'all listen to me
Don't you try to find no home
in Washington,
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D .C. Cause it's a bourgeois time
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It's a bourgeois time
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I got the bourgeois blues
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Gon' spread the news all around