Chords for Cigar Box Slide Guitar - Booze and Blues - Ma Rainey/Charley Patton

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[Ab] _ _ _ _ It was late one evening, trying to get some sleep. _ _ _ _
It was late one evening, _ [Db] trying to get some sleep.
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But I woke up this morning, _ [Bb] police were shaking me. _ _ _
_ _ They threw me in the jailhouse, [Ab] talking to a sucker. _ _ _ _
_ [Abm] _ _ [Ab] They threw me in the jailhouse, talking to a sucker. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ They did no such thing, refused to pardon _ [Eb] me.
_ _ _ _ They kept me at the courthouse, all the years I was _ trying.
_ _ _ _ _ Kept me at the courthouse, all the years I was trying.
_ _ _ _ They gave me six [Eb] days in jail, and no money [Ab] could pay my fine.
[Bb] _ _ [Ab] I'm going to play now. _ _
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Six _ _ _ _ _ _
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days in jail, and no _ money could pay _ [F] my fine.
_ [Ab] Six days in jail, and no money could pay my fine.
_ _ _ [Abm] _ _ But it seemed [Ab] like years in a cell where there ain't no [Bb] _ _
blues.
_ _ Well, my life is all a misery, when [Eb] I can't get my blues.
_ [G] _ _ [Ab] _ _ Life's all a misery, when [Db] I can't get my blues.
[Ab] Can't get _ _ _ _ [Eb] my _ blues, can't get [Db] _ _ [Abm] _
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[Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ _ my [Ab] _ _ _ _ blues. _ _