Chords for Johnny Cash Home Of The Blues

[A] called [B] Home of the Blues, record shop.
[A] I [B] said, that's a good idea for a song, Home of the [E] Blues.
So I wrote it.
Just around the corner there's heartache,
down the street that losers [Gb] use.
[A] If you [B] can wait in [E] through the teardrop, _
[Gb] [A] you'd find me [B] at the home [E] of the blues. _
[B] _ [A] I [B] walk and cry [E] while my heartbeat _ [A] keeps time
[B] with the drag [E] of my shoes. _
[A] The sun [B] never shines [E] through this window of mine.
[A] It's dark [B] at the home [E] of the blues. _
[A] Oh, but the place is filled with the [E] sweetest memories. _
_ [B] Memories so sweet [E] that I cry. _
_ [A] Dreams that I've had [E] left me feeling so bad.
[Gb] I just want to give up and lay [B] down and die.
_ _ [A] So [B] if you've just [E] lost your sweetheart,
_ [A] and it seems [B] there's no good [E] way to choose,
_ _ [A] come [B] along with me, [E] misery loves company.
[A] You're welcome [B] at the home [E] of the blues.
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_ _ _ [A] Just [B] around the corner [E] there's heartache,
_ _ [A] down the [B] street that [Gb] [E] losers use.
_ [A] If you can [B] wait in [E] through the teardrops,
_ [A] you'd find me [B] at the home [E] of the blues.
Yeah, [A] you're gonna find me [B] at the home [E] of the blues.
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_ _ _ [Ab] A man in this [Bbm] town was a songwriter,
and they called him the father of the [C] blues, W.C. Hammond.
[G] And Memphis remembers him today with a statue in the park.
The blues [F] were written in Memphis, played [Bb] in Memphis,
and sung in Memphis by legends.
Like a lady they said was [F] the empress of the blues, Bessie Smith.
[Fm] At a familiar Memphis landmark, the Peabody Hotel,
[Eb] we got to hear Bessie's blues sung by our special guest,
the lovely Crystal Gale.
_ [D] _ [Bbm] I've [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [D] _ [Fm] _ _
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
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_ _ [D] _ [Eb] _ [Gb] got the [Fm] blues.
It feels [Bb] so [Eb] lonely.
[Gb] I'd give the [Fm] world
if [Bb] I could only [Eb] _ [G] make you [C] understand.
_ _ _ [Dm] [F] It really would [Bb] be grand.
_ _ [Eb] Baby, won't [G] you please [C] come home?
_ [F] Baby, won't you please [A] come home?
[A] _ [Bb] _ I have [G] tried in [Cm] vain.
[B] [F] Never no [A] more.
To [B] call your [Bb] _ name.
[E] _ [Eb] When you [G] left, you [C] broke my heart.
[Ab] Because I [Dm] thought we'd [C] never.
[G] _ _ _ [Ab] Every hour [F] in the day,
[Eb] you can [G] hear [C] me say.
[F] Baby, [Bb] won't you please [Eb] come home?
[Dm] [C] I really mean it.
[F] Baby, won't [Bb] you please [Eb] come [C] _ [F] _ [Ab] _ [Bb] _
home?
[F] _ [Gm] _ _ Nobody.
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