Chords for Jelly Roll Morton - Honky Tonk Blues

Tempo:
86.7 bpm
Chords used:

Bb

F

Cm

Eb

C

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Jelly Roll Morton - Honky Tonk Blues chords
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[C] Well the girls had start, play me something there boy, play me some blues.
So they start playing [Fm] in this way.
[Bb]
[Eb]
[Bb] [Bbm] [Bb]
[F] [Cm] [F] [Cm] [Dm]
[Bb]
I could sit right here
Think a thousand miles away
Sit
[Gb] [Eb] right here
Think a thousand miles [Bb] away
Since [F] I had that [A] blues this bad
[F] Cannot [Cm] remember [Bb] the day
[Fm] Tell me [Bb] baby what you got on your mind
Tell
[C] [Eb] me baby
What you got [Gm] on [Bb] your mind?
[Gm] [Bb]
[F] I'm eating and [Cm] drinking
[F]
Having [A] a lovely [Bb] time
Let me be your Wiggler
Tell your wife look [Fm] how
[Bb]
[C] [Eb] [Eb] Let me be a wiggler
Tell your mom [Bb] look
You
[F] tell your [Cm] wobbler
[F]
Well Joe, [Bb] we've done
I'll never believe in having one [A] woman
[Bb] at a time
[F] [Bb] [Bbm]
[Bb] [Eb] I'll never believe
in having one woman at a [Bb] time [Cm] I
[F] Always have [Cm] six seven [F] eight [Bb] nine.
[Gm] [F] [Bb]
[F] She [G] said [F] [Bb] me Oh, baby
[Eb] [Eb] Hey [Bb] Baby
You
[G] [Cm] better set [F] your sweet papa [G] crazy
[Bb] [Gm] [Bb]
Crazy
Sometimes they have good-looking
[G] Good-looking women of [Cm] all kind
beautiful women
[Bb] Thomas ugly very [G] ugly
[C] Some look like they had limp lips look [F] like bumpers on a [Bb] boxcar.
I'm telling [Gb] you.
They had all kind of men [C] dressed up rags
[Cm] Rags look like ribbons [Bb] on some of them.
[D] Some of them [Gm] with big guns in their bosoms
It was law and new leaves that anybody [Bb] could carry a gun if they wanted almost
[G] About $10 [C] fines didn't make very much [Cm] difference and if they [Bb] found you $10
why [F] your sentence would be [Bb] 30 days in jail [Gb] and
Possibly they'd put you in the market [C] to clean up the markers in the morning [Cm] and most of the prisoners would always run away
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[C] Well the girls had start, _ play me something there boy, play me some blues.
So they start playing [Fm] in this way. _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ [Bbm] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ [Cm] _ [F] _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I could sit right here
Think a thousand miles away
_ Sit _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ [Eb] _ right here
Think a thousand miles [Bb] away _ _ _ _
Since [F] I had that [A] blues this bad _
[F] Cannot [Cm] remember [Bb] the day _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Fm] Tell me [Bb] baby what you got on your mind
Tell _
_ [C] _ [Eb] _ me baby _
What you got [Gm] on [Bb] your mind?
_ [Gm] _ [Bb] _
_ _ [F] I'm eating and [Cm] drinking
[F] _
Having [A] a lovely [Bb] time _ _ _ _
_ Let me be your Wiggler _
Tell your wife look [Fm] how
[Bb] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ [Eb] _ [Eb] Let me be a wiggler
Tell your mom [Bb] look
_ You _
_ _ [F] tell your [Cm] wobbler
_ [F]
Well Joe, [Bb] we've done
_ I'll _ _ _ _ never believe in having one [A] woman
[Bb] at a time
[F] _ [Bb] _ _ [Bbm] _
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] I'll never believe
in having one woman at a [Bb] time _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] I
[F] Always have [Cm] six seven [F] eight [Bb] nine.
_ [Gm] _ [F] _ [Bb] _ _
[F] She [G] said [F] [Bb] me _ _ Oh, baby _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Eb] Hey _ [Bb] Baby
_ _ You _ _
[G] _ [Cm] better set [F] your sweet papa [G] crazy
[Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ [Bb] _ _
Crazy
Sometimes they have good-looking
[G] Good-looking women of [Cm] all kind
_ beautiful women
[Bb] Thomas ugly very [G] ugly
[C] Some look like they had limp lips look [F] like bumpers on a [Bb] boxcar.
I'm telling [Gb] you.
They had all kind of men [C] dressed up rags
[Cm] Rags look like ribbons [Bb] on some of them.
[D] Some of them [Gm] with big guns in their bosoms
It was law and new leaves that anybody [Bb] could carry a gun if they wanted almost
[G] About $10 [C] fines didn't make very much [Cm] difference and if they [Bb] found you $10
why [F] your sentence would be [Bb] 30 days in jail [Gb] and
Possibly they'd put you in the market [C] to clean up the markers in the morning [Cm] and most of the prisoners would always run away _

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