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Empty Bed Blues chords by Bette Midler

  • F

  • G

  • C

  • D

  • A

Intro 1
F
G
C
F
G
D
G
Verse 1
C
Woke up this mornin'
G
With an awful achin' head.
C
Woke up this mornin'
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G
With an aw ful achin' head.
D
My new man left me.
C
G
I'm just a bloom in
D
an empty bed.

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Verse 2
G
Now, when my bed gets empty
C
I get to feelin' kind
G
of mean and blue.
C
When my bed gets empty,
F
G
Get to feelin' awful mean and blue.
D
G
The springs are gettin' rusty
C
G
D
Sleepin' single like I do.
Verse 3
G
I bought me a coffee grinder,
C
G
The best one I could find.
C
You know that I bought me a
G
brand new coffee grinder,
The best one I could find,
D
So he could grind my coffee.
C
Babe, I got a brand new grind.
G
D
You gotta try, girl, you gotta try.
Verse 4
G
C
He was a deep sea diver
With a stroke that could
G
C
not go wrong.
Deep, deep sea, deep sea diver
G
With a stroke that just could not go wrong.
D
He could touch the bottom,
C
And his wind held out
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C
A
D
so long.
Verse 5
G
Oh, he boiled my cabbage,
C
G
And he made it awful hot,
A
C
G
C
mmmm.
He boiled it, I got to tell you
F
G
D
That he made it, made it awful hot.
D
But when he slipped the bacon in,
C
G
He overflowed the pot!
Verse 6
C
D
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
G
yeah, yeah, yeah.
C
What a sweet man he was.
G
I went and told my girlfriend Lou.
Remember that old rag
C
of a girl named Lou?
Real sweet man.
G
I went and told my girlfriend Lou.
D
C
That way that girl is, baby,
G
D
She must have had a piece of it, too.
Verse 7
G
C
G
C
And now when you get good lovin',
Don't you,
G
don't you spread the news.
C
Don't you spread the news.
When you get it and it's good,
good, good,
G
You really ought not to,
You ought not to spread the news.
D
C
Because those gals will doublecross you and leave you,
D
Those gals will doublecross you,
C
and they do,
D
Those gals will doublecross you
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D
G
And leave you, leave you, leave you,
C
D
G
Leave you with the empty bed blues!
Zah!
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