Key: E major•
Intro 1
E
A
E
Verse 1
E
Do you know me? ,
B
Of course you do! ,
Though maybe you haven't seen
E
B
me in a little while
E
I'm that drum beat comin'
B
E
through your car radio
F
G
F
And I'm that thumpin' bass that drags you along
E
B
C#m
E
B
C#m
E
with the rhythm
I'm that part of music that makes you
B
E
wanna dance
Interlude 1
D
E
D
E
D
E
A
E
Verse 2
E
I'm a pure gospel song issuing forth from
a Sunday morning church house
A
D
A
D
A
Jesus!, Jesus,
D
G
A
G
A
E
Jesus, Jesus,
B
E
B
Jesus, Jesus,
E
B
E
B
E
B
Jesus,
E
B
E
B
E
B
E
B
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Je sus!
I'm a happy crystal ring of a high mountain fiddle
A
E
A
G
D
A
G
E
A
G
D
A
D
E
A
D
E
A
I'm the blues at midnight oozing out
E
of a back street honky- tonk
I'm draw my nourishment from the teeming
A
E
streets of New York City
B
The lonely grain covered
A
plains of Minnesota
From cabaret and camp meeting,
E
B
C#m
and bayou and beer joint and good times and ghettos
B
C
B
I was born in a house of New Orleans traveling
D
A
B
up the river on the North bound paddle leaders
E
I was nurtured in the Mississippi delta when seeds
A
E
B
of the blues sprang forth in the rich black soil
E
B
G
A
I was there when Elvis learned to sing,
E
A
when BB got his first guitar
E
I'm black and white and smooth
B
and rough and hard and soft
A
C
I'm the roots of American music
B
E
A
And I'm always there just the local service
E
And when the chaff of trend
and bad is swept aside
A
I'm exposed again
E
Strong, pulsating and very much alive
A
The winds of change
E
A
E
may blow the tree away
B
E
B
But the roots remain, then,
E
now and until the end
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE A B F G...
E
A
B
F
G
C#m
D
C
Capo: 2
Transpose: 0
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