Chords for David Bromberg teaches "Cocaine Blues" Part 1 of 2

[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[B] _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
[Am] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [F] _ _ [Bbm] _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [A] _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ _ _ I say, [G] come here, mama, don't you take me for no [Eb] fool.
_ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ Well, I [F] wouldn't quit you, woman,
_ _ _ while the [Bb] weather's cool. _ _ _ _ _ _
Around _ your [D] back [Bb] door, [Eb] I will [Bb] make my [G] creep, _
[Bb] just as [G] long as you earned [Cm] a two and a [F] half [Bb] a week. _ _ _ _ _
You [G] know, I got a gal.
She works in the rich folks' [C] yard.
_ _ [B] _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _ _
[F] Oh, she brings me meal. _ _
Yes, she bring me [Bb] love. _ _ _ _
Oh, she _ _ brings [D] me meal.
_ _ [Eb] Yes, she [G] bring me love.
_ [Bbm] Girl, bring [G] me anything [C] _
[F] that she [Bb] can steal. _ _ _
I call [G] my corp, _ _ hey, hey.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ [F] Along comes Sally with her nose all taut.
[Bb] You know, the doctor says she can't sniff no more.
[G] I say, run here, doctor.
Ringing the bell, [C] there's women in the alley. _
_ [Eb] I'm [E] simply [F] wild about my good [Bb] cocaine. _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Fm] _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [F] _ [Bb] _ _ _ [A] _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _
You know that [G] the furniture man, he come to my [B] door.
[C] _ Last thing I'm on, all [F] he asked me was my wife at home.
[Bb] I said, no, she's been long gone.
And [G] then he backed his truck up to the door.
[C] He took everything I had.
You know, [Eb] he came [E] on [Bb] back to the [G] furniture store.
[F] I declare, I did [Bb] feel sad.
_ [G] Now, what in the world has anybody
got to [C] do with a furniture man? _ _ _
_ [F] If he got no dough to put up a show,
[Bb] he'll take everything he can.
Well, [G] he'll take everything from an ugly plant,
[C] a skillet to a frying pan.
Boys, [Eb] if there ever [C] was [Bb] a devil without [G] any horns,
[C] he must have [F] been a [Bb] furniture man.
I call my [G] car up.
Hey, hey.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] Along comes Sally with her nose all taut.
You [Bb] know, the doctor says she can't sniff no more.
[G] Cocaine for horses, not for men.
[C] He says he's going to kill me, but he don't say when.
[Eb] I'm simply [E] [F] wild about that good [Bb] cocaine. _ _ _ _ _
Well.
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ That was the Cocaine Blues by Luke Jordan. _ _
I do that in the concert key of B flat. _
And I use a capo on the third fret.
_ So I've got my capo on.
Let's just double check our tuning,
because the capo can throw the guitar out of tune
before we go any further. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] Now, even though _ _ this is Luke Jordan's tune,
I find that I play it with a lot of _ _ the licks and rolls
that I learned from Reverend Gary Davis. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ The Reverend, I guess I put on two finger picks.
The Reverend only ever used one.
_ _ _ _ And when I first started studying with him,
I thought, well, I could do everything that he does,
maybe a little easier, because I have an extra finger to use.
_ And then I discovered you don't get the same feel. _ _ _ _ _
And I'll demonstrate.
Up the neck, I sometimes play, I always play in this tune. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And that, somehow, when you do it with all three fingers, _
_ _ _ _ _ the emphasis is on the wrong syllable.
It just doesn't come out right.
So the Reverend did a lot of rolls
_ where he would use his thumb twice in a row, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ and _ some where he would use his fingers twice,
the finger twice in a row. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So I'll _ _ _ show you.
This starts with a walk down.
And I think now you'll want to probably look at the left hand.
It starts here. _
_ _ [F] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ And [Bb] that's, again, _ thumb, thumb, _ finger, [F] thumb, [Dm] thumb, finger.
[Fm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [G] _ _ _
So it [Bb] walks down from the G [G] position to the E [Bb] position.
_ _ [F] _ _ [Ab] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [B] _ [C] _ _ [Eb] _ [Am] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [A] _ _
One of my favorite Gary Davis [C] licks. _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[C] Contrary motion.
I mean, you could do it not using your thumb.
You could play, _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ but I'm [C] so used to doing it.
_ [Ab] _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Gm] _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ [Bbm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ That's _ taken from a B natural.
[N] And the chord there, well, a B natural position.
The chord there, when I'm [D] singing it, is _ B seventh.
_ _ _ _ But to a [Eb] C, _ _ _ _ _ _ to [G] a C sharp diminished,
[E] _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ [Bbm] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ the diminished chord, you can always move it.
If you move it, what is it, three frets up every time,
you get the same chord in a different inversion. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ So _ then _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ I hook my thumb over. _ _
And with my pinkie, I get the high _ concert D _ _ to _ _ _ _ an E chord,
or E formation, [G] _ _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ _
to an A.
And that's _ _ [Bb] doing a song.
_ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ [G] So I pull off _ _ _ [C] into this position of an A.
That's an A with the third in the bass,
with the C sharp in the bass. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
D7th position, [Bb] _ _ G position.
_ _ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ [Cm] _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So I'll try and do the whole thing _ slowly _ on a split screen. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Ab] _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bb] _ _ [B] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
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[Bbm] _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ [Fm] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ [F] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
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_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Dbm] _
[Cm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Ab] _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[B] _ _ [C] _ [Eb] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [F] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[Bbm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
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[C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [Dbm] _ [Cm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Ab] _ [G] _ Come here, mama.
_ Don't you take me for no fool.
[C] _ _ [B] _ _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [A] I wouldn't [F] quit you, woman, _ _ _ _ _ while the [Bbm] weather's cool. _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Around [D] your back door, _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ I will make [E] my cream, _ _ _ _
[Bb] just as [G] long as you earn [C] that _ [F] 2 and 1 1⁄2 [Bb] a [G] week. _ _
[Db] _ [Cm] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
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