Key: B major
Verse 1
E
C#m
E
C#m
Rock bottom, I got em,
E
C#m
E
C#m
E
I got the rock bottom blues.
E
C#m
E
I got the rock bottom blues.
C#m
B
I don't know how I caught em,
F#m
A
I'd be better off without em,
E
D
E
it's the blues that I would never choose.
B
E
I knew a boy named Timmy,
he was so forlorn
He had the rock -a -bottom blues
since the day he was born
Fell out of the crib and cracked his head
Em
G
The very first words that little Timmy said
E
C#m
E
Rock -a -bottom, rock -a -bottom
C#m
E
C#m
E
I got the rock -a -bottom blues
C#m
A
Rock -a -bottom, rock -a -bottom
F#m
A
I'd be better off without him
E
C
It's the blues I'd really love to lose
B
E
He told me trouble
was the only thing he'd ever had had
He got a lot of luck, but it all been bad
He took the house, he took the job
He lost the wife, she kept the kids
E
A
E
D
E
hit the skids high
D
Bm
B
E
A
E
And then one day he got to thinking,
what have I got to lose,
he went to watch Kamikaze Kitty
and the hoochie -coochie -toot.
B
C#m
She shimmied and she wiggled
E
C#m
and she giffed in the eye.
C#m
E
C#m
why don't you drop
E
C#m
on by?
of the big romance
C#m
E
in which Kamikaze Kitty
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E
C#m
taught Timmy to dance.
that she ever had to learn
And when they cut a rug together,
man, the dance floor burned
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C#m
and the limbo, too
E
C#m
E
C#m
The mambo and the zumba
E
C#m
E
C#m
and the booga loo
E
C#dim
Well, they bopped downtown,
C#m
E
boogied up the alley
C#m
E
They got a little house
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E
C#m
E
way up in the valley
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E
C#m
A -rockin' and a -rollin',
a -twitchin'
They were waltzing in the parlor,
they were twisting in the kitchen
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C#m
A
The day that Timmy got
E
F#
He knew he'd never have to worry
A
G
about the rock bottom blues
I dropped the rock bottom blues
A
C#dim
but I'm better off without
A
E
him, it's the blues
A
Edim
C
E
D
E
I'm really happy, but you'll lose
Rock bottom blues
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