Blues Power Chords by Albert King

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[G] _ _ _ This is blues power! _ _
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[Am] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _
_ [B] _ _ Everybody [C] understands the blues.
Are you listening?
[G] I [A] say [G] everybody understands the blues.
[D] [Am] Everybody from one day to [E] another has the [D] blues.
[C] You [Gm] take the little baby that's laying in the [G] cradle.
_ [E] He can't get that [G] milk bottle fast enough.
He goes kicking and [Em] crying and going on [D] tearing up the little baby bed.
He got the blues.
[C] Can you dig it? _
_ [G] You take this girl that's got this main squeeze.
That's her boyfriend that [D] is, you know.
[G] And he just bought a brand new GTO.
_ [D] [C] You know she want to be with [G] him every time he cranks it up.
Go around the corner to the soda fountain.
This is why she want to go and show it off.
While [C] all the guys and gals speak.
You know what I mean?
And she get [G] ready to go out this particular night.
My mother said, daughter you was just out last night.
She can't [G] go out tonight.
That's too many nights in a row.
[E] [Bm] She go in the room and fasten the door and [C] won't answer the phone.
Won't eat, won't talk to nobody.
She got the blues.
[G] That's what's wrong with it.
Some people call them the [C#] reds, the pinks.
[G] When you get through, it's the old-fashioned country blues.
[C] That's right.
I used to eat my main [Gm] squeeze in [G] 10 long weeks today.
You know I got the blues.
Can you dig it?
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