Nobody Knows chords by John Lee Hooker

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Intro 1

Verse 1
C 
Nobody know,  (C major) 
nobody know what I've been through
F 
C 
F 
Nobody know,  (F major)  (C major)  (F major) know what
C 
I've been through  (C major) 
Sometime, sometime I didn't have
food to go on my table

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Verse 2

That's why I sang the blues

You got to feel it, you got to know it

You got to be and been through this

thing to sing the blues

And that's why nobody know what I've been

Interlude 1

through

Verse 3
C 
F 
C 
I was born  (C major)  (F major) on a little cotton farm  (C major) 
My mother and my father were very poor
I was unprivileged,
F 
 (F major) I didn't have a chance
C 
F 
And that's why  (C major)  (F major) I just

Verse 4
sang the blue
F 
 (F major) 
C 
People,  (C major) you don't know I've been through
I wonder why everything I do
I just can't get lucky,

Interlude 2

save my life

Verse 5
C 
My mother  (C major) and my father both
are dead and gone
They loved me in the world alone
I ain't got nobody to tell my trouble to
F 
Well,  (F major) I'm drifting, I'm drifting
I'm drifting from town to town
C 
 (C major) 