Life, Love & The Blues Chords by Etta James

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_ _ [A] _ _ _ Oh, _ oh, oh.
Life, _ _ love, _ and the blues. _ _ _
_ _ Hey, I got something to tell y'all. _ _
[A] _ See, I wanna tell you about these three [D] things. _
_ [G] _ [A] First, you have life.
[G] [A] You open your eyes and you have life.
_ Next, you look around [D] and then you're in love.
I [A] mean love.
_ And then seeing that [Am] nothing lasts forever,
_ _ [D] the big B comes around and [A] zaps you.
_ That is the mighty _ blues.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [Am] I _ _ _ _ _ _ live my life [D] with passion.
_ [Am] [A] I love the way I feel.
_ [C] [D] But if I did it any other way, _ it wouldn't [A] be me. _ _ _ _
_ Some say the road [D] is easy.
_ [Am] _ [A] _ Others find it hard.
_ [E] [F] But I'm here to tell you the [E] news
wouldn't mean nothing [A] without the blues.
_ [Am] Is _ _ [Dm] there life, _ _ [E] love, _ and the [Am] blues?
[A] _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ [Dm] _ Life, _ _ [E] love, _ [A] and the blues.
_ [D] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] I've been [A] in love, _ been [D]
loved, [A] left alone.
_ _ [Am] _ _
[D] I've been had, cause I've been bad,
broke [Am] some hearts of my own.
[A] _ _ _
[Am] I know the blues [D] got me through. _
[C] [A] I'm here to tell you when _ [F] you got the blues,
oh, [E] you're never, never [Am] alone. _ _ _ _
I [Dm] said life, _ _ [E] love, _ [A] and the [Am] blues.
_ _ Ain't nothing [Dm] like the life, _ [E] sweet love, [A] and the blues.
[Am] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [A] First you have life.
You open your eyes and you're alive.
And then next you look [D] around and oh, [Am] you're in [A] love.
I mean love. _ _
_ _ And then here comes [D] [A] the big B, _ the blues.
_ [Am] _ Ain't nothing like it.
[A] Yeah, _ _ _ [D] yeah, _
[A] yeah.
_ _ [Am] _ Ain't nothing like life, _ _ _ [D] _ love, _
[Am] and the blues.
_ [A] _ I [E] said [Dm] life, _ [E] sweet love, [A] and the [Am] blues.
_ _ [D] _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ Ain't [E] nothing like it.
Ain't [Am] nothing like the blues.
_ [D] _ _
[Dm] I've been in love, been loved, _ [E] _ _ _
[Am] left alone.
Ain't nothing like [Dm] it.
Ain't [A] nothing like [B] it.
I said life, [Dm] _ _ [E] sweet love, [A] and the blues.
[Am] _ _ _ [D] _ [C]
When you got [Dm] the blues, _ _ [E] ain't nothing like,
[Am] _ ain't nothing like the [D] blues. _ _
[Am] [Dm] Wouldn't mean nothing _ [E] without _ the [A] blues.
_ [Am] I _ _ [B] said life, _ [E] sweet [Dm] love, [A] and the blues.
_ [D] _ _ _
[C] I'm [B] here to tell you [G] about [E] life, _ love, _ [A] [Am] and the blues. _ _
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