Chords for CEDRIC BURNSIDE • Joke • Briggs Farm Blues Festival 2019
Tempo:
93.05 bpm
Chords used:
E
B
C#
D
Em
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Jam Along & Learn...
This man and woman had one kid.
He was a boy, about 22 years old.
His parents never saw him out, so they asked him,
you don't want to get out the [E] house, find you a [B] girl, get married, you 22 [Em] years old.
Mama, where daddy at?
went to the garden.
He said, where she at, son?
[G#] went in there.
He was a boy, about 22 years old.
His parents never saw him out, so they asked him,
you don't want to get out the [E] house, find you a [B] girl, get married, you 22 [Em] years old.
Mama, where daddy at?
went to the garden.
He said, where she at, son?
[G#] went in there.
100% ➙ 93BPM
E
B
C#
D
Em
E
B
C#
_ _ This man and woman had one kid.
He was a boy, _ about 22 years old.
His parents never saw him out, so they asked him,
Son, you don't want to get out the [E] house, find you a [B] girl, get married, you 22 [Em] years old.
_ So he found him a girl and he come back.
[N]
Mama, where daddy at?
She said, he out [Dm] there in the garden.
[E] He went to the garden.
Daddy, I found me a girl. _
He said, where she at, son?
[C#] So he sitting [E] there on the couch.
He [G#] went in there.
He looked at the girl.
[E] He turned around and told the boy, [F#] no, no, son, you [D] can't marry that girl,
cause that's your sister.
[C#] _ [E] But your mama don't know it. _ _
_ _ _ So he found him another girl.
He come back.
Mama, where daddy at?
She said, he back there in the kitchen.
He went in the kitchen.
Daddy, I found me another girl.
_ He said, where she at, son?
So she sitting there on the couch.
He went [B] in there.
He looked at that girl.
He turned around and told the boy, no, no, [D] son, you can't marry [E] now one of them girls, cause both of them girls is your [C#] sisters.
But your mama don't know it.
_ [E] So about a week later, his mama asked him, [B] son, you didn't like now one of them girls well enough to [E] move out, get married?
He said, yes, ma'am, mama.
I liked both of them.
But daddy said I couldn't marry them, cause they was my sisters.
But you didn't know it. _
She said, what?
_ [C#] She said, well, I'll tell you what, boy.
You can marry any one of them girls [E] you want to, cause [D] he ain't your daddy.
But he don't know it.
_ I like to tell that [C#m] joke unless I'm too shocked. _
_ [B] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
He was a boy, _ about 22 years old.
His parents never saw him out, so they asked him,
Son, you don't want to get out the [E] house, find you a [B] girl, get married, you 22 [Em] years old.
_ So he found him a girl and he come back.
[N]
Mama, where daddy at?
She said, he out [Dm] there in the garden.
[E] He went to the garden.
Daddy, I found me a girl. _
He said, where she at, son?
[C#] So he sitting [E] there on the couch.
He [G#] went in there.
He looked at the girl.
[E] He turned around and told the boy, [F#] no, no, son, you [D] can't marry that girl,
cause that's your sister.
[C#] _ [E] But your mama don't know it. _ _
_ _ _ So he found him another girl.
He come back.
Mama, where daddy at?
She said, he back there in the kitchen.
He went in the kitchen.
Daddy, I found me another girl.
_ He said, where she at, son?
So she sitting there on the couch.
He went [B] in there.
He looked at that girl.
He turned around and told the boy, no, no, [D] son, you can't marry [E] now one of them girls, cause both of them girls is your [C#] sisters.
But your mama don't know it.
_ [E] So about a week later, his mama asked him, [B] son, you didn't like now one of them girls well enough to [E] move out, get married?
He said, yes, ma'am, mama.
I liked both of them.
But daddy said I couldn't marry them, cause they was my sisters.
But you didn't know it. _
She said, what?
_ [C#] She said, well, I'll tell you what, boy.
You can marry any one of them girls [E] you want to, cause [D] he ain't your daddy.
But he don't know it.
_ I like to tell that [C#m] joke unless I'm too shocked. _
_ [B] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
