Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
nobody know what I've been through
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Nobody know, know what
Sometime, sometime I didn't have
food to go on my table
Verse 2
That's why I sang the blues
thing to sing the blues
And that's why nobody know what I've been
Interlude 1
through
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Verse 3
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I was born on a little cotton farm
My mother and my father were very poor
I was unprivileged,
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And that's why I just
Verse 4
sang the blue
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I wonder why everything I do
I just can't get lucky,
Interlude 2
save my life
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Verse 5
are dead and gone
They loved me in the world alone
I ain't got nobody to tell my trouble to
I'm drifting from town to town
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Verse 6
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But nobody know
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC F G
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