The Mississippi Blind Boy chords by Marty Cooper

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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He was just an old street singer,
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he'd been blind from birth
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Living in the city, singing of the earth
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People often passed him by
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and never raised their heads
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As if they feared some wisdom
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in the words the blind man said
He never offered thank you
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to the few who graced his cup
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Never really listening,
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never looking up
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Something in him touched my heart
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Cause I  was a lonely kid
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And I asked him where he'd come from
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And I asked him what he did
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I'm a Mississippi blind boy
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Got an old guitar
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Never gonna make it big,
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I'm never gonna be the star
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But if you give me your
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pennies and your dimes
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I will sing you a story and
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spill you a lime
Countless summer mornings
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I would walk with him downtown
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Listening to his music
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as I followed him around
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One summer evening
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he took me by the hand
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I may be just an old
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straight singer's son
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But there's things I understand
Never let nobody know
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what you've got on your mind
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Sing your song and move along
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just as if you were blind
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And never let no fools possess
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the secrets of your soul
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For the world can only rob you
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and never leave you home
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And the Mississippi Blind Boy told me,
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always make them pay
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People will only hate you
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if you give yourself away
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He took all my pennies and my dime
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Just to sing me a story,
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and spin me his rhyme
Early one Sunday morning
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they came and cut me out of bed
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This old blind nigger died downtown,
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that's what they said
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Just before he passed
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he told us you'd know what to do
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Here's twenty dollars and a guitar,
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he left them both to you
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So, Mississippi blind boy,
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you sung a bitter poem
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But your sorrow has ended now,
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Je sus gonna carry you home
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And I'll take back my pennies and my dime
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Just to sing you a story
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and spin you a rhyme