Hobo Blues Chords by John Lee Hooker

[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ My boy wife left me. _ _
_ [D] [Am] Boy, [A] _ [Am] she put me out in the big world.
[D] _ [Am] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [D]
[Am] When my boy wife left me, left me, [D] _ [Am] _
put me out in the big wide world alone.
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_ _ _ _ [Am] _ I started traveling [A] homeboy and [Am] making _ _ freight trains and highways my home. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] I had a good [Am] woman, good woman, but _ _ _ _ _ I was so young and wild.
Oh yeah.
_ _ I _ _ _ _ _ _ had a good woman, good woman boy, _ _ but I was so young and wild.
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[A] You know she told [Am] me, John, I got to let you go.
Cause [D] I [Am] know you don't mean one woman no good. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ Now hear what I did.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ I left my wife and [A] my baby boy.
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[A] _ My little baby was only four days old. _ _
[Am] _ _ I _ left my wife and my baby.
_ _ _ _ _ Oh, she was only four days [Am] old.
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_ [Am] I ain't seen my wife and [E] my baby.
You _ _ know, it's been a [D] long, long, long, long time. _ _ _
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_ _ I've been drinking and [A] gambling boy. _ _
_ [Am] _ Ever since my wife been gone. _
Yes, I [A] am.
_ _ _ _ [Am] I've been drinking and gambling, drinking and [A] gambling.
[Am] _ _ [A] Ever _ since my wife been gone.
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_ _ I ain't found nobody, found nobody to _ ease my troubling mind.
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Yes, sir.
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ Freight train, freight train, _ _ _ freight train and bus cars have been my home. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Freight train, freight [A] train _ and bus cars have been my room.
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ My wife and my baby, [G] _ [A] _ _ I wonder how could they be doing.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I wonder how could they be doing. _
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[G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ If _ _ _
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_ I [Am] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ get my [Am] wife back again, boy. _ _
I ain't going to drink and gamble no more. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ If I get my wife back [A] again, _ _ I ain't going to drink and gamble no more.
_ _ _ I done got older, I done got older.
_ _ [Am] God knows I understand, understand now baby.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [Am] _ I used to be young [D] _ [Am] _ and wild, young and wild.
_ [D] _ [Am] _ _ _ Oh, [D] I used [Am] to be, I used to be.
[D] Oh boy, [Am] young and wild, young and wild.
_ _ [D] _ [Am] _ When my first wife left [D] me.
[Am] Lord, you put me, put me out on the road.
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