Key: Bb major
Verse 1
G
A
D
G
Em
You're gonna hear the truth,
Gm
C
The blues was born where
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deep in the south on plantations and riverboats.
Melodies
came out of songs of slavery,
G
D
spirituals moaned and hummed in the
and plantation hollers.
Gm
C
Folk singers carried their tales of
They told the truth,
the unvarnished truth as they knew it.
G
C
D
Sad, lonely, you know, the blues.
C
G
D
blues how do you do?
D
C
Well I'm doing alright
G
C
G
C
I lay down last night I
Gdim
D
C
Now, don't you get me wrong I wasn't sick,
G
Gm
G
C
I was just dissatisfied
D
G
When I got up this morning
G
C
walking round my bed
G
C
I tell you when I got up this morning,
C
G
Yes, yes
C
D
When I went to eat my breakfast
Yeah, the blues
G
C
G
was all in my brain
Oh
Lord,
Oh
Lord won't you please
D
C
This earth left abusing my heart and my soul,
G
C
G
I said my soul is full of misery.
You
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG A D Em C...
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