Chords for 12 Bar Blues

_ _ _ [B] _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _
_ _ [B] There's only one [Em] bar in this town I get [G] drunk at.
_ _ [C] _ Still I have [D] open tabs at two. _
_ [G] _ _ [B] I dated the [G] waitress at the third bar that I'm thinking of.
[A] _ _ There's four [D] bars in this town I can't even go into.
_ [G] _ [B] My friend Kenny's the [G] ten bar at the fifth [C] one.
_ Still [D] ten's bar at the sixth one, too. _
[G] The seventh bar on this [Em] block has a kick-ass [D] jukebox. _
[A] The eighth one will let you smoke [D] inside after two.
[G] _
[B] I've sung songs in [Em] about nine bars in East Nashville, [C] Tennessee.
But I know that I've been [D] to at least ten.
_ _ [Gm]
I always [B] go back to good old [Em] Eleventh Street Bar in New [G] York City
[C#] when the twelve bar [A] blues has got [D] me down again.
Got [G]
twelve [B] _ [Em] bar blues.
_ _ [C]
Too [D] many bars to [G] choose. _ _ _
Well, [B] I will drink [Em] tonight [G] and [A] _
[D] get me feeling [G] all right.
[E] _ _ [G]
How [B] many roads must a [Em] man walk down
[G] to [C] _
find an affordable [D] bar in the city of Los Angeles?
[G] _
[B] Or even more so, to [Em] find some affordable [G] company?
[A] Seems like you have to pay for the conversation there [D] in one way or another
even if you're not directly [G] involved.
You're always [B] overhearing that [Em] story about the one that [G] got away
[C] or the movie script the one guy's [D] writing that's gonna change everything.
[G] _
_ [B] Feel like if [Em] writing stuff down really [G] changed anything,
[A] a lot more people would know who [D] Philip Levine is.
_ [G] He was an American [B] poet [Em] laureate.
_ _ [C] _ Wonder why my teachers forgot to tell [D] me about him in school.
_ [E] _ Probably because his poems got [Em] bad words in them.
[D] _ [C#] Talk about Board of [A] Education.
_ [D] American style.
Got _ [Bm]
twelve [Em] bar blues.
[G] _ _ [C] Too [D]
many bars to [Em] choose.
_ _ [G] _ Well, I will [Em] drink tonight [D] _ and [A] get [D] me feeling [G] all right.
[E] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [B] _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [B] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G]
So hang [D#m] some taxidermy [Em] up on the wall.
[G] Mute the [C] TV.
_ [C] That pool [D] table over there gives out every other game [G] for free.
But don't [D#] tell anybody though.
[Em] The [G] manager doesn't know anything [A] about it.
It's kinda the way it is [D] at our bar.
It's a little broken and it's not [G] that great, but hell [B] man, it's [Em] ours.
_ [G] One [C] time this guy came into our bar
[D] saying karaoke style, [G] Hootie and the Blowfish.
[B] _ _ [Em] We had [G] to ask that guy to [A] leave.
Not [D] because we don't like Hootie though.
[G] Hell man, I hear [B] Hootie's an alright [Em] guy.
_ [G] _ [C] So Hootie, this beer's for you my friend.
[D] Shine on you crazy diamond.
[G] _
[B] Don't let the [Em] bastards get you down.
[G] Hold my [A] hand.
I only wanna be with [D] you.
_ [E] I [G] got _ [B] twelve [Em] bar blues.
[G] _ _ [C]
Too [D] many bars to choose.
_ [G] _
[B] Well I will [Em] drink tonight _ [A] and get [G] me feeling all right.
[E] Don't you know I [G] got the _ [B] twelve bar blues.
[G] _ _
[C] Too many [D] bars to choose. _ _
_ [G] Well I [B] will sleep [Em] tonight.
[D] _
_ [C#] And get [D] me feeling all [G] right. _
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _
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