Key: F minor
Verse 1
C
B
Em
B
Em
People ask me
C
B
when I sang the blues
G
C
B
what method did I use?
Am
Em
Though I will tell you how, my friend
F#
B
It's not the way I'd recommend
Em
D
You find a good love and
C
B
treat her wrong
Em
D
Then be sorry about it
C
B
when she's gone
Am
C
Em
You'll say come back, she'll refuse
C
B
That's how I learned
Em
B
to sing the blues
Em
C
Now the people pay to hear my song
B
Em
The mournful melody
G
C
of love gone wrong
B
Am
C
An d while the blues
F#
B
I find I can't sing nothin' else
Em
D
C
F#dim
B
I lost a love I can't re place,
Em
C
with every line I sing I see her face
B
Am
C
And though it's not
C
B
Em
that's how I learned to sing the blues
Eaug
Am
when other lovers
hold their true love's tie
Eaug
Am
F
I hold another,
C#dim
C#m
C#dim
C
B
It's only memories I crave
Eaug
Am
just for a moment
Am
F
And reach to hold you
C#dim
Em
F#dim
But only find the feeling that I'll use
B
Em
C
B
Em
To sing these blues
C
B
Am
Em
C#dim
Gdim
B
Em
C
B
Em
C
B
Am
F#dim
Am
Em
C
B
Em
B
Em
D
C
B
My advice while you have a choice
Em
G
C
Is do some exercises for your voice
B
Am
C
B
Em
When you sing, cry every word
F#
B
Flat the seventh and the third
Em
D
C
And you can sound as if
Em
D
Don't be a fool and treat
C
B
your good love bad
Am
C
Em
You will gain less than you lose
C
F#dim
B
That's how I learned to
Em
C
B
C
B
sing the blues
B
Em
That's how I learned to sing the blues.
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