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