The blues is here to stay

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

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  • Intro 1



    Verse 1
    Long 
    before 
    learned 
    how to 
    tie 
    my 
    shoes 

    learned 
    that 
    New 
    Orleans 
    was 

    the 
    home 
    of the 
    blues 

    Not 
    long 
    ago 
    one 
    morn

    in' 
    the 
    sun 
    in the city 

    The 
    blues 
    went 
    rollin' 
    and 

    tumbin' ya'll 
    up 
    the Mis
    sissippi 

    Up 

    through 
    the delta 

    Up to 
    memphis 
    ten
    nessee 

    Where 
    every 
    people 
    struggled 
    ya'll 

    Struggled 
    to 
    be 
    free 

    The 
    blues 
    is the 
    music 

    That 
    fanned 
    the flame 

    That 
    burned 
    in 
    the soul 

    Little 
    Wal
    ter 
    and El
    more 

    James 


    The 
    blues 
    is a 
    music 

    That 
    anyone 
    can 
    feel 

    It 
    comes 
    from 
    the crowds 
    of 
    the people 

    that worked 
    the cot
    ton 
    field 

    The 
    blues 
    threw 
    out 
    a pain, 

    but now 
    it 
    can 
    heal 

    And 
    the 
    more 
    sing 
    it, 

    the 
    better 
    feel 

    And nobody 
    can 
    give 
    it away 

    Nobody 
    can 
    take 
    it away 

    Nobody 
    can 
    throw 
    it away 

    And 
    you can't 
    even pray 
    it away 

    And the 
    blues 
    is 

    feel'in that 
    will 
    never 
    die 

    And 
    the 
    blues 
    is 
    feel'in to stay 




    What would 
    this 
    world 

    be 
    without 
    BB King 

    Without 
    Bobby 
    Blue 
    Bland 

    doin 
    his 
    thing 

    Without 
    Bone 
    Walker 

    an
    Howl'in Wolf 

    Without 
    Bessie 
    and 
    Big Mama 
    strut

    t'in thier 
    stuff 


    There'd 
    be 
    no 
    Elvis 
    no 
    Jerry 
    Lee 

    young 
    Eric 
    Clapton 
    would have 

    never 
    crossed 
    the sea 

    Without 
    old 
    Light'in, Jimmy 
    Reed, 

    Muddy 
    Waters 
    to 
    grow 
    up on 

    Hey the 
    Beatles 
    and the 
    Stone
    they'd of 
    never 
    left 
    home, 

    no 
    no 




    The blues 
    is the gospel 

    of 
    the 
    common 
    man 

    The 
    story 
    of a 
    people 
    in 
    hostile 
    land 

    Built 
    on 
    a foundation 

    that will 
    never 
    fall 

    Thanks 
    to 
    Robert 
    Cray, 
    Stevie 
    Ray, 

    and Ta
    Majal 

    And 
    nobody 
    can 
    give 
    it away 

    Nobody 
    can 
    take 
    it away 

    Nobody 
    can 
    throw 
    it away 

    And 
    you can't 
    even pray 
    it 
    away 

    And the 
    blues 
    is 
    feel'in that will 

    never 
    die 

    And the 
    blues 
    is 
    feel'in to 
    stay 

    Outro 1








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