Chords for Lightnin' Hopkins Thinkin' 'Bout An Old Friend

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_ [Ebm] Just sitting down here thinking, _ _ [Ab]
about an old friend I used to have.
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_ Just sitting down here [Ab] thinking, _ _ [Eb] about an old friend I used to have. _ _ _
_ _ You know she ain't around [Bb] here no more. _
_ [Ab] Poor Charlie's way out in the [Eb] west somewhere. _ _
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Whoa, if you ever [Ebm] go out in west Texas, _ [Eb] _ _ _
boy please stop by Abilene. _ _ _ _
_ _ Whoa, if you ever go [Ab] out in west Texas, _ _ _ woman please stop by [Eb] Abilene.
_ Lord have mercy.
_ You know [Bb] some of the sweetest women out there.
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Were not [Bb] that a man mostly ever [Eb] see. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Help [Ab] _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ me somebody. _
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Whoa, you know I'm going out in west Texas.
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_ _ Fall down [Eb] on that rising sun. _ _
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_ [Ab] Fall down on that [Eb] rising sun.
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_ _ _ You know I'm going after [Bb] the good Lord and the people. _
_ [Ab] Whoa Lord, what [Eb] a room to have, pool light and dark. _ _
Long [Bb] time boy. _ _ _ _ _ _
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Well you know west Texas is a place.
_ _ That's the place my baby always be.
_ _ _ _ You know west Texas is a place.
_ _ That's the place my baby always be.
_ _ _ _ You know she [Bb] pick cotton all the summer.
_ _ [Ab] Any winter time she stop and wait for me. _
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