James' Blues chords by Owen Temple

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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James washed dishes
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at a barbeque place,
5th street downtown.
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He'd get his pay and go next door
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to drink his money down.
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I was just getting started playing guitar
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and I met him there.
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I'd finish a song, he'd clap his hands,
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no one else would.
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But he didn't care
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He'd yell, I'll play a whiskey river,
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and I'd play it the best I could
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I'd take a break, and he'd say, man,
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you're really soundin' good
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Shook his rough -dish washing hands,
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as he said, his name's James
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He'd go back to playin' that pool
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every evening, same old thing
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He was drinkin' away every single dollar
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I played his songs
That 8,
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he'd clap his hands
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and make everybody smile
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No wife, no kids, just a job in Austin
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No tellin' how the drinkin' cost him
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I haven't seen James in a while
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I haven't seen James in a while
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James would ask the bartender
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for a ride home now and then
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He said he lived a few blocks
down
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at the Capitol Inn
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Well, the bartender dropped him off
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and James walked right on past
He didn't quit a walk
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until he laid down
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beneath a  busy underpass
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He was drinkin' away every single dollar
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I'd play the songs that he'd holler
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He'd clap his hands,
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make everybody smile
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No wife, no kids, just a job in Austin
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No tellin' all the drinkin' cost him
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I haven't seen James in a while
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I haven't seen James in a while
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James got drunker than usual
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and ended up in jail
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The owner of the barbecue place
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came down and paid his bail
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When they got back to the place, she said,
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Now, James, I gotta let you go
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James walked out that door
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forever in arrest
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Nobody knows
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He'd been drinking away
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every single dollar
I'd play the songs to that eight dollar
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He'd clap his hands,
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make everybody smile
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No wife, no kids, no job in Austin
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One more thing that the drink is costin'
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I hadn't seen James in a while
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I hadn't seen James in a while
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