Chords for Elvin Bishop at Ground Zero Blues Club

_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ A goldfish is [Gm] here, a fish [G] is here, a goldfish is [D]
fishing.
_ _ _ [Bm] Got your goldfishes.
[Am] Hey, _ [E] you owe me.
Well, [G] we haven't caught anything all day.
[Em] We've been smoking since the guy told him, man, [B] the fishing's so good down [G] here, you have to_
You have to hide behind a tree to bait your hook.
You have to go behind a tree to bait your hook.
Ha ha ha.
_ _ [D] If you catch [G] a fish up in here, it's accidental.
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_ _ We go around and play for _ tele-shows and things like that,
and they didn't know that we was professionals.
Well, he was, I wasn't.
We was_
We're trying to win that bottle of whiskey.
Yeah, we're winning the bottle of whiskey.
Yeah, I was drinking that whiskey at the end, man.
Yeah.
I was drinking that a year ago.
Yeah.
I was playing with Mud Water, man, we was drinking the devil out of that junk.
Yeah.
Yeah, we was hunting proof granddaddy.
You ain't got hold of something.
Oh, la la!
You ain't got nothing up now.
Ha ha ha!
Hey, can you show that?
_ _ _ You ain't got nothing up there, man.
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_ Ha ha ha.
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_ [Gb] _ I've been real lucky. _
I've been in the right place at the right time a lot in my career.
I was lucky in the first_ _
Well, see, right there, it was time for white people to start appreciating the blues,
and it hadn't happened yet.
The only time you'd hear anything about [Eb] blues to the white public
was if it was on a folk festival in those days, you know?
Trying to sneak in that way.
And then it finally busted loose and crossed over,
and I just happened to be there with the _ goods at the right time, you know?
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_ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ Free on my own
[Am] _ That's the way I used to [Eb] be
_ Since I met you, baby
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I've got a hold on [F] these food around and down
_ [Am] _ _ I've got a hold on these [Eb] food around and [Bb] down _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Eb] _ _ [N] _ _ Somebody asked me,
You gonna rehearse with Pine Top for the show tomorrow night?
I said, No, we're gonna do like Taj Mahal told me.
I did a thing with him about a month ago,
and I said, Did you want to go over any of the tunes or anything?
He said, You know how to play, and I know how to play.
We'll get up there and play. _
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[Dm] Hey, Jack, _ [G] I just got back.
_ Looking for the place [B] they call Chicken Shack.
[C] Still [G] findin' wine and stick it on the wall.
No one knows, [Gb] it's just a whole [G] wall.
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ Oh, me and Smoke?
Oh, Lee, I don't know.
Someplace, maybe the Blue Flame, huh?
Yeah.
In Chicago in 1960,
_ Smokey used to have a big old process,
big nice process, be real sharp.
Yeah, got it. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _
_ Ain't been no meat _ _ _ _
[D] _ since that little boy had knocked me
_ _ Onion mouth, _ _ _ _ yellow teeth, _ _ _
crow's eye, _ eyeglass wings, _ _
mule mouth, _ _ _ _ _ long chin,
_ _ _ _ big belly, _ _ _ _ bald head,
buck teeth, _ _ onion breath. _
Hey, I better let that loose.
Like the name of the club says, Ground Zero.
This is where the Delta Blues came from, you know.
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