Mean Old Bed Bug Blues chords by
Dave Van Ronk

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Key: G major

Verse 1
G G 
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Bedbuggin' mean and evil
C C 
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G G 
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don't mean me no good
C C 
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Csus4 Csus4 
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Bedbuggin' mean and evil
C C 
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G G 
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don't mean me no good
D D 
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Thinks he's a woodpecker
C C 
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G G 
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but my poor body's a piece of wood
Bedbugs as big as a jackass
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will bite you and stand an d grin
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Csus4 Csus4 
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Bedbugs as big as       a jackass
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G G 
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will bite you and stand and grin
D D 
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You know they'll tell the other bedbugs
C C 
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G G 
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it's dinnertime, better off again
I go to bed at nine,
C C 
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G G 
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I wonder how a poor boy can't sleep.
I go to bed at night,
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I wonder how a poor boy can't sleep.
D D 
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One is holding my hands
C C 
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Csus2 Csus2 
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G G 
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while the others is biting my       feet.
I pay the floor at night,
C C 
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G G 
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I'm so tired, I'm about to drop dead.
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I pay the floor at night,
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I'm so tired, I'm about to drop dead.
D D 
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You know the damn little bedbugs
C C 
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Csus2 Csus2 
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G G 
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won't let me get into     bed
C C 
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So they were moaning in the corner while I

Verse 2

Csus2

was try ing to sleep

So they were moaning in

Verse 3

the corner

while I was trying to sleep

Verse 4

It was a bedbug mother praying,

Lord, give my children more to eat

Verse 5
C C 
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I got myself a wishbone, these
G G 
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bugs, they got my goat.
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You know I got myself a wishbone,
G G 
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these bugs, they got my goat.
D D 
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You know, I wish every one of them
C C 
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G G 
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would cut their own goddamn throat.

Interlude 1

Csus2

Csus4

He thinks he's a woodpecker, my

Verse 6

poor body's a piece of wood.

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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsG C Csus4 D Csus2

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