Chords for Buddy Whittington - Minor Blues

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[Am] _ _ _ [Em] We've no hope of employment, [Dm] there ain't much left to lose.
[F] Look at the major situation, [B] human beings need [A] to be served.
_ [C] _ _ [E] _ All [Am] the corner [C] stands a hooker with the hollow looking eyes.
She'll turn a trick for stolen tricks and overdose to die.
[Dm] By the time the county sheriff and her [F] get a low end conference grade,
[Em] her little sister's out there [Am] on that corner ship with AIDS.
[G] You won't see it in the paper, [Dm] cause it's selling fake [F] news.
But in the major situation, [B] human beings need to buy a [D] new. _
[Am] _ _ _ [Dm] By the news you said it, with [Am] your phone star on main.
[Dm] You'll know it when you're hearing it, it's some of the shattered frame.
These daily clumb [Am] problems say there's nothing I can do.
[B] But this ain't some third world country, [G] it's right here with me and you.
[Em] You know there's a gangland down in this school yard, no place to play and run.
Well there's 12 year olds with crackpots smoking ice and crack and gun.
[F] And we see them hanging around the doghouse, getting high and skipping [Em] school.
No one wants at home to love them, but [C] usually that just ain't true.
[Em] So again here comes a family, [Dm] the only one they ever knew.
[F] It's a major situation.
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_ _ [Bm] _ It's [D] a major situation.
[B] _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ [Am] _ It's a major situation.
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It's a major situation.
_ [E] _ [D] It's a major [Dm] situation.
It's a major situation.
[F] It's a major situation.
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_ _ [Dm] Sweet man in the alley, [C] in an alcoholic haze.
[Dm] Built a bonfire in a [C] row, keeping the warm back there today.
[Dm] Then I lost my wife and [C] family back in 1933.
[B] Still the dog knows how to get us.
[E] This is how it looks for me.
[Em] _ The jailhouse is a doorknob again.
The House of 25 where these workers used to [G] live.
[F] It's made to fill with characters, all released too [Am] soon.
[C] It ain't because they done the time, [Am] it's because they're out of room.
[Em] It's called the justice [Dm] system, and [F] say it works for me and you.
But the laws are made for [B] loopholes.
It's gonna be a couple of days.
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[F] It's a major situation.
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