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The blues is here to stay easy guitar chords by
Tab Benoit
Tab Benoit

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Long before I learned how to tie my shoes
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I learned that New Orleans was
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the home of the blues
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Not long ago one morn
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in' the sun in the city
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C

The blues went rollin' and
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tumbin' ya'll up the Mississippi
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Am

Up
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C

through the delta
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Up to memphis tennessee
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Where every people struggled ya'll
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Struggled to be free
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The blues is the music
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That fanned the flame
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That burned in the soul
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Little Wal ter and Elmore
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C

James
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The blues is a music
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Bm
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That anyone can feel
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C

It comes from the crowds of the people
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Am

that worked the cotton field
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C

The blues threw out a pain,
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Am

but now it can heal
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C

And the more I sing it,
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the better I feel
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And nobody can give it away
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Nobody can take it away
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Nobody can throw it away
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And you can't even pray it away
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And the blues is a
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feel'in that will never die
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C

And the blues is a feel'in to stay
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C
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What would this world
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be without BB King
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C

Without Bobby Blue Bland
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doin his thing
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C
Bm

Without T Bone Walker
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an d Howl'in Wolf
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Without Bessie and Big Mama strut
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t'in thier stuff

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There'd be no Elvis no Jerry Lee
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A young Eric Clapton would have
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never crossed the sea
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Without old Light'in, Jimmy Reed,
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Am

Muddy Waters to grow up on
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Hey the Beatles and the Stones they'd of never left home,
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G

no no
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D
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The blues is the gospel
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of the common man
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The story of a people in a hostile land
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Built on a foundation
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that will never fall
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Thanks to Robert Cray, Stevie Ray,
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and Taj Majal
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And nobody can give it away
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Nobody can take it away
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Nobody can throw it away
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And you can't even pray it away
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And the blues is a feel'in that will
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never die
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And the blues is a feel'in to stay
Outro 1
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