Chords for Baby I'm Blue - Mike Compton and Joe Newberry with Rafe Stefanini

_ _ _ [G] _ a variety test.
[E] _
laughter
_ _ _ What _
_ _ [G] _ we got?
[N] Let's do the blue song.
_ Now watch this.
You've got them all. _
I _ _ like it on the mandola. _
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Number 2.
_ _ [Ab] _ Mystery day.
Tell our guest what he's wanting to ask.
_ [G] We've chosen what's behind door number 2.
I know.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] You never know
when a song [C] is going to strike you.
This one struck me in [N] the post office.
Christmas stamps.
_ _ The whole first line dropped down into my head.
_ _ I chose somebody _
_ _ who wasn't going to get a Christmas card
because I wrote it down on the back of the envelope.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [G] _
It's a song
done in the style of the Mills Brothers.
I'll [A] _ [Gm] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ bet you I'm blue. _ _
[Eb] _ laughter
_ _ I was a lucky man.
In addition to playing it with Mike Compton,
I got to play it with Branford Marsalis.
_ [Gm] I'm from North Carolina. _ _
_ _ [Db] _ _ [F] _ _ [Db] _ _
_ [A] I'm not done yet.
[G] _ laughter
[Gm] Lead on, Branford.
[A] _ [Bbm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Blue _ was a color [C] so _ distracting.
[Am] _ I thought [D] blue
Blue _ was just [G] something
the wind did.
_ [Eb] _
[D] _ _ [Bb] I [G] lost you. _
That's something
I never [C] end. _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [Eb] _ [F] _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Eb] _
[D] _ _ _ [G] Before you _
blew through my lungs
I thought [C] you were [Em] cold.
[E] _
[Am] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
Blue was immobile [G] and true.
_ [Gm] _
[D] When I [G] lost you _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ I [Am] _ _ [Bb] depended [G] on you.
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_ [Am] _ [B] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ [Gm] _
[G] _ _ _ [Gbm] [G] Blue _ _ _ and a spark
[C] that was chemical. _ _
[Am] _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ [D] _ _ _
That's
that kind of [G] love
we could _ _
[D] have.
_ _ [G] _ _ _
Has a terror
that I'll never [C] remember. _ _
[Am] _ At least
[G] not _ _ _
[D] _ _ [G] that it
_ [C] _ _
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[Am] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [D] _
[Gb] _ before.
[G] _ _ _ Blue
Blue was a color [Gm] so [Am] strengthening. _ _
[D] _ Something
that gave me hope.
Blue was just [Gm] something
the [G] wind did.
_ _ [D] _
I [G] lost you.
_ _ That's something
I never [C] intended.
[G] _ _ _ [Am]
[B] I depended [G] on you.
_ [Eb] _ [D] _
_ [C] _ [G] _ _ [C] _ [Cm] _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ I lost [D] you. _
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
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