Chinch Bug Blues chords by Blind Lemon Jefferson

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Intro 1

Verse 1
C 
I never did feel uneasy,
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I know how you left your tricks
I never did feel uneasy,
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I know how you left your tricks
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You leave town today and it's ten
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days, you've got your business
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well fixed
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Verse 2
Ab 
I wonder if the chinches bite in
Dbm 
C 
Beau  mont, oh,
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C 
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like they do in Beale Street town
I wonder if chinches bite in
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Beaumont, like they do in
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Beale Street town
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The first night I stayed in Memphis,
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C 
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chinch bugs turned my bed around
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C 
I had to get

Verse 3
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C 
'ceitful with the bedbugs,
to keep the chinches from
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Dbm 
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takin' my life
Dbm 
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I     had to get 'ceitful with
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the bedbugs,
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to keep the chinches
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from takin' my life
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Be cause the chinches got my number,
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C 
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wrote three letters to my wife
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My

Verse 4
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C 
wife caught me easin',
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way across that rich gal's room
I said my wife caught me easin',
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way across that rich gal's room
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The next time I go to slip out,
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I ain't gonna leave on the light
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anymore

Verse 5
C 
My wife has quit me,
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and my rich pigmeat gal is too
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I     say my wife has quit me,
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and my rich pigmeat gal is too
Gm 
Oh, Lord, I'm lyin' in this cold bed
alone, scared with the chinch bug blues
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