True Blue Jeans chords by Ramblin' Jack Elliott

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Verse 1
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 (D major) Let me tell you about  (A major) a pair
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of jeans I  (D major) once had.
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 (A major) I bought them in  (D major) a work clothes shop,
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 (A major) not a store anymore.
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 (D major) Where a sailor ashore can find
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good work  (A major) clothes galore.  (D major) 
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I'm talking  (A major) about a place,
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 (D major) Ace, where a cowboy  (A major) in town
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can drown  (D major) his sorrows in good blue
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denim and can (B flat major) vas brown.  (D major) 
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It's there I spies  (G major) these  (E minor) old
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 (G major) Levi's.
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Em 
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 (G minor) I    (D major) mean,  (E minor) they're brand  (E major) spank (A major) in' new,
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but the style was  (D major) old.
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 (A major) True blue  (D major) jeans.
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 (A major) Made of dark  (D major) blue cloth.  (A major) 
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 (E minor) Got that  (A major) sweet soapy  (D major) smell in there.
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Thick and  (A major) hard so they'll
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 (D major) wear  (B minor) real  (D major) well.  (A major)  (E minor) 
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 (A major) Buy them loose,  (D major) 
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cause  (A major) they're gonna shrink.
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 (D major) I  give them three extra inches in length,
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and two in the  (A major) waist.
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They'll soon  (D major) fit tight,
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Provided  (A major) you wash and
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 (D major) dry them right.  (A major) 
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 (E minor) Here's  (A major) what I'd  (D major) done,
and it's half the fun.
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True  (B flat major) blue jeans.  (D major) 
From the days when a man's
best friend was his old six -gun,
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 (E major) I passed  (A major) a rope up one  (D major) leg and side,
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Crossed  (A major) it down the other  (D major) side,
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Closed  (A major) that  (D major) bite with a bowlin' knife,
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 (A major) Tied the bitter end  (D major) to a stump nearby,
and tossed them in the creek
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and watched  (A major) them sink.
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 (D major) I  left them soaking  (A major) overnight,
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 (B minor) when morning come  (D major) I   (A major) saw the sight.  (D major) 
I pulls them out, unties the line,
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Em 
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 (A major) wrung  (E minor) them out (A major) ,
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 (D major) hung them on a branch  (A major) to bake in  (D major) the sun,
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like they  (A major) done on the  (D major) ranch.
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True blue  (G major) jeans.  (B flat major)  (D major) 
I pulls them off when they're bone dry,
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It was still  (B flat major) quite stiff,  (D major)  (E major) I can testify,
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 (A major) But softer  (D major) then than they were before.
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 (A major) Now I can walk  (D major) from here to the door,
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 (A major) Not stiff  (D major) as a board, but they still  (A major) got
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some  (D major) stout,
Which will ease your comfort
in the saddle,
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Scout.  (A major) 
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True  (D major) blue jeans,
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 (A major) And  (D major) that's the way they
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made them  (A major) when
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Your old 44  (D major) was your very best friend.
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When  (G major) your word was  (E major) true,
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 (D major) and genes were  (B major) dark blue.  (E major) 
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 (A major)  (D major) 