Chords for Lil Green - Knockin' Myself Out 1941 - Reefer Blues Songs

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_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ [A] _ _ [C] _
_ [Fm] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
Listen, [G] girls and boys, I [Ebm] got one [C] stick. _
_ Give [G] me a match and let [Ebm] me take a [C] whiff quick.
[F] I'm gonna knock _ myself out.
_ _ _ [Dm] Yes, [C] I'm gonna kill [G] _
myself.
[C] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _
_ [G] I'm gonna knock myself _ [F] out _ _ gradually _ [C] by degree.
[F] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] I started blowing my [G] gauge and I [Ebm] was having my [C] fun.
I spied the [Dm] police and [Ebm] I [A] started [C] to run.
I [F] was knocking myself [Bb] out.
_ [Fm] _ [Bb] _
[F] Yes, _ [C] I was killing [G] myself.
[C] _ _ _
_ [Ebm] _ [G] I was knocking _ myself [Dm] out _ _ _ gradually [C] by degree.
[F] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Am] _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] But the [Dm] very moment [G] _ _ [Ebm]
I looked [C] _ around,
a man [Dm] said, Lil, throw [Ebm] that gauge on [C] the [Ab] ground.
The police [F]
passed and said, kill _ yourself.
_ The police [C] passed and said, [G] kill yourself.
[C] _
_ _ [Cm] _ [Am] He [G] said, knock yourself out, [Gm] Lil, _ [F] _ _ gradually [C]
by degree. _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ [Ebm] _
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_ _ [F] _ [G] _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _
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_ [Bb] _ [A] _ _ [Ab] _ [C] _
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_ [G] _ _ [B] I [C]
used to didn't [G] blow gauge, [Ebm] drank nothing [C] of a kind. _
But [G] my man put me in a [Ebm] [A] chain [C] in my mind.
That's [F] why I knocked _ myself [Dm] out.
[F] _
_ _ _ [C] Yes, I just [G] killed myself.
[C] _
_ _ [B] _ _ [G] I knocked myself _ [Dm] out _ _ [C] gradually by [G] degree.
_ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [C]
I know to blow [G] this job, [Ebm] it's a sin and [C] a shame. _ _
But it's [G] the only thing ease [Ebm] my heart [Eb] about [C] my man
is when [F] I knock myself out. _
_ _ [Fm] Lord, [C] when I kill [G] myself,
[C] _ _
_ _ _ [G] I just knock myself _ out [C] _
_ _ [F] gradually [C] by [F] degree.
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