East St. Louis Blues (Fare Thee Well) chords by Blind Willie McTell
Intro 1
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Cm
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Em
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Verse 1
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I walked all the way from East Saint Louis
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I never had but that one, one thin dime
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I laid my head in a New York woman's lap
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She laid her little cute head in mine
She tried to make me bleed by the
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rattlings of her tongue
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The sun would never,
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never shine
I pawned my sword and
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I pawned my chain
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Well I pawned myself
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but I fell to shame
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I tried to see you in the fall
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When you didn't have no man at all
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I'd love to meet you in the spring when
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the bluebird's almost ready to sing
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Faree, honey, faree well
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You can shake like a cannon ball,
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get out and learn that old
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Georgia crawl
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Faree, honey, faree well
(Play it boy...)
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And
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I laid my head in a barroom door
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And I can't get drunk,
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drunk no more
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Now if you can't do the sugary get yourself on
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out of this house to me
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Faree, baby, faree well
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I tried to see you in the spring when the bluebird's
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almost ready to sing
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Faree, honey, faree well
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And I walked on back to
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East Saint Louis
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Never had but that one,
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one thin dime
Outro 1
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East St. Louis Blues (Fare Thee Well)
Blind Willie McTell
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