Cortelia Clark Chords by Mickey Newbury

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_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [E] I was just a boy of the year, [Bm] the _ Bluebird Special [E] came through here, _ [A] _ on its first run
south to [E] New Orleans. _ _ _
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[A] A blind old man [A#m] and I, we [E] came to Guthrie just [C#] to see the [E] train.
_ [A] _ He was [C#m] black [F#m]
and _ _ [Bm] I was [E] _
green.
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_ [E] _ _ _ Tell me what you [G#m]
see, he [C#m] said.
_ _ Is the [E] engine black or red, son?
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_ _ That's the loudest thing [A] I've ever seen. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Then he picked his [A#] guitar _ [E] up, set on the fender of the truck,
[A] and his [C#m] eyes lit [F#m] up as he [B] began [E] to sing.
_ I _
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[E] _ [A] remember _ _ _ _ well, [E] that _ _ old man's dreams [A] were _ _ _ changed
_ _ to a _ depot [E] _ _ [F#] down [E] in _ Guthrie, [C#m] _ _ _ [F#m] and a _ _ Bluebird _ Special [C#m] train. _ _
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He [B] picked his guitar up, [C#m] _ shuffled down [B] the walk,
the cars [A] uptown wound round the buildings _ [E] at his feet.
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Looking mighty [B] proud, that old man, [C#m]
with his battered [E] head at his hand,
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Lord, he sung a _ song that made me [B] _
weep.
_ Yes, he made [C#] me _ _ [F#] _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ [D#] _
[C#m] _ weep.
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_ _ [D#] I read it in a weak old paper.
[C#m] _ _ [Em] No one made it for his [A] wake, _ _ or laid a flower at his feet.
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_ He was just [G#m] a blind old [C#m] beggar.
People [C#] said, Lord, I wish [A] _ you won't be begging up [E] there on [B] your streets. _ _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ _ You'll find him, [A] Lord, this morning.
_ _ _ He'll [E] be stepping _ [G#m] _ from the [A] door. _ _ _ _
Can you _ save a [C#m] street?
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I read it, [E] glory, _ _ [C#m] _ Lord, _ _ [F#m] for _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ Cartelia. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ [G#m] was just a boy the [C#m] year the Bluebird Special [E] came through here
_ [A] _ on its first run south to New [E] _ Orleans. _
_ _ _ _ [A] Yes, a blind old man [A#m] and I, we [E] came to Guthrie just to see the train.
[A] He was black, _ [F#m] _ _ _ [B] was _ I _ [A] green. _ _ _
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