Chords for Chris Bouchillon - Talking Blues (1926)

_ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ [C#] _ [F#] _
_ _ _ If you want to get to heaven, let me tell you how to do it.
Breathe your feet into the little mutton.
Stand right [B] out at the devil's [C#] hands and [F#] slide right over into the promised land.
Go easy.
[B] _
_ [C#] Make it easy.
[F#] _ Go easy.
_ [B] _ _ [C#] _ [F#] _ _ _ _
Standing in the corner by the [B] mantelpiece, up in [F#] the corner by a bucket of grease,
I breathe [B] my feet into the little axe of [C#] grease,
when flipping up and [F#] down that mantelpiece, hunting matches, [B] _ _ [C#] cigarette butts, [F#] _
chewing fangs.
[B] _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _
Make up your beds, gal.
Make them up nice.
Old Peter Johnson's going to be here tonight.
He's a chicken.
[B] _ _ [C#] Love the kids.
[F#] _
Love the [B] senses, too.
[C#] _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ Standing on the corner, standing like a man.
Standing on the corner with a bucket in my hand.
Standing [B] on the corner with a bucket [C#] in my hand, waiting for [F#] a stop by the pipe, old Sam.
[B] Lassies.
_ [C#] Sweetman taters.
[F#] _ Old [B] bitches.
_ [C#] _ [F#] _
_ _ _ Down in the wild woods, sitting [B] on a log, my finger [F#] on a trigger and my eye on a hog.
I pull [B] the trigger and the gun's [F#] dead blip, jumped on that hog with all my grip.
This is crazy.
[B] _ _ [C#]
Geeking hog eye.
[F#] _ Love [B] kiddly.
_ [C#] _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [D#] _ _ [G#] _ _
[D#] _ _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ Behind the henhouse the other night, it was awful dark and I had no light.
I scram around [B] and got a hold [F#] of a goose, a white colt save, and I turned him loose.
Young Gully.
[B] _ _ [F#] [C#] Lord Bushy.
[F#] _ Dark [B] Bullies, too.
[C#] _ [F#] _
_ _ _ Behind the henhouse on my [B] knees, I [F#] thought I heard a chicken sneeze.
It was only a rooster saying it's [C#] fresh, and they're giving out the [F#] hymns to the hens upstairs.
It's [B] preaching.
_ [C#] Hens are singing.
[F#] _ Rooster's [B] praying.
_ [C#] _ [F#] _
_ They put me in a jailhouse on [B] my knees.
All [F#] they gave me was a pan of peas.
The peas was [B] red and the [F#] meat was [C#] fatter.
Got stuck on the [F#] jailhouse just as that.
Got [B] sad.
_ [C#] _ Impotent. _
[F#] Wanted to fight.
_ [B] _ _ [C#] _ [F#] _
_ _ _ There ain't no use in working so hard.
I got a woman in the white boat yard.
Went to kill a [B] chicken.
She [F#] saved me the feet.
She thinks I'm a worker, but I'm loafing in sheep.
Having a [B] good time.
[C#] Talking about her.
_ [F#] Two other [B] women.
_ [C#] _ [F#] _
_ There ain't no use in working so hard.
I got a woman in the white boat yard.
Went to [B] kill a chicken.
She saved me [F#] the head.
She thinks I'm a worker, but I'm lying in the bed, sleeping.
[B] _ _ [C#] Having a good time.
[F#] _ Dreaming about her.
[B] _ _ [C#] _ [F#] _