The Things I Used To Do chords by Doug Sahm

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Verse 1
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Remember that old run?
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That's what we called the 1 -3 -5
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back home in San Antone.
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Keep it simple, Jack.
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The guy that made that sound famous
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is the guy I'm dedicating
this album to.
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The great, the great Santa Tern,
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Louisiana Bayou gui tar player named Guitar Slim.
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or some people
knew him as Eddie Jones.
Like a lot of blues singers,
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he lived a very heavy life,
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a very heavy life of women
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and alcohol,
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but he left behind some songs
from the bayous of Louisiana
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that are rhythm and blues
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are the classics
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that you just don't hear
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today in the modern disco.
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Break, right here. Play it, Ted.
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Things that I used to do
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I don't do no more
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Things that I used to do
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I just don't do no more
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Verse 2

I used to set to hold your hand, baby

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Verse 3

Beg you, baby, if you don't go

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I used to search all night,

hon ey, baby

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Thought all my search

would always end up in vain

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I used to search all night for you baby

All of my searching

Searching always ended up in vain

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But I knew all the time baby
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You was headed out to Geor
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gia man
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You're backed up
and ready to leave me,
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Lord knows I'm about
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to cry.
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You're backed up and you're
ready to leave me baby,
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Lord knows I'm about to cry.
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Just be fore you leave me darling
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Please give me something,
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something to re member you by

Interlude 1
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Verse 8
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I wanna send you back to your
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mother,   baby
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Lord, I'm goin' back home to my family,
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Well, I'm gonna send you back
to your mother, baby
Oh, yeah, I'm going back to San Antonio,
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my friend or two
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Verse 10
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There ain't nothing I can do
to please you, baby
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Honey, I just can't get along
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with you
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The things that I used to do,
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Lord, I just don't do no
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more
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The things that I used to do,
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Lord, I just don't do no
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more
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I  used to sit before your head, baby
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And beg you, baby,
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please don't go