Blue Yodel by Jimmie Rodgers (1927) Chords

[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ [Ab] _ Tea for Texas, tea for Tennessee, _ tea for Texas, tea for Tennessee, _ tea [Bb] for [Eb] Thelma,
that gal that made her [Ab] drink out of me. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
If you don't want me mama, you sure don't have to stop.
Lord, Lord.
If [Db] you don't want me mama, you [Ab] sure don't have to stop.
_ [Eb] Cause I can get more women than a passenger [Ab] train can haul.
Oh, oh, [Bb] _ _ [Ab] oh.
I'm gonna buy me a pistol just as long as I'm caught.
[Db] Lord, I'm gonna buy me a pistol just as [Ab] long as I'm caught. _ _
[Bb] I'm gonna shoot poor Thelma [Eb] just to see her [Ab] jump and fall.
Oh, oh, _ [Bb] oh.
_ [Ab] _ _ _ I'm going where the water like cherry wine.
Sing them boys, sing them.
[Db] Lord, I'm going where the water [Ab] drinks like cherry wine.
[Eb] Cause the Georgia water tastes like [Ab] turkey pie.
_ Oh, oh, oh. _
_ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Ab] _ I'm gonna buy me a shotgun with a great long shiny barrel.
[Db] Gonna buy me a shotgun with a [Ab] great long shiny barrel. _
I'm gonna [Bb] shoot that round up, that's the [Ab] only way my gal. _
_ Oh, lady.
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Rather drink muddy water and sleep in a hollow log.
[Db] Rather drink muddy water and sleep [Ab] in a hollow log.
_ [Bb] Than to be in Atlanta treated [Ab] like a dirty dog.
Oh, lady.
[Bb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _