Mercy Chords by Mississippi Fred Mcdowell

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_ _ That's the blues, y'all. _ _ _
_ I don't play no rock and roll. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I'll tell you what I want y'all
to do.
_ _ That makes me feel so much better.
You know, I _ don't go for no expert guitar
player, _ _ _ and I don't even try to outplay nobody.
I got my own way of playing, and I got my
own_
See, I play by feeling.
_ You know, _ some people, they don't ever feel nothing until
they lose somebody in their family.
And they say, I'm so sorry.
I did all I could when
I ain't done nothing, you understand.
_ _ So, _ y'all rock with us just a little while tonight,
_ because I come here to play for y'all.
And I'm playing with understanding.
I play a lot
of stuff.
I play blues, and I play specials too.
_ _ But I play blues this way.
It's what
I know.
But when I'm playing a special song, I'm playing from my heart, you understand.
_ Of course, I feel both of them.
But, you know, a special song gets close to me, and the blues
do. _ _ _ Sometime. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Sometimes I sit down and I wonder, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ baby, why don't you write to me?
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[E] _ Lord, I sit down and
I wonder, baby, _ _ _ _ _ why _ don't you write to me? _ _ _
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[E] _ _ If I've been a _ bad fella, baby, you know I
[G] didn't intend to [E] be.
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_ _ _ _ _ Everybody crying mercy.
_ _ _ Baby, tell me what you mean.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] Lord, everybody
_ _ _ crying mercy. _ _
_ _ Baby, tell me what you mean. _
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_ [E] _ _ Heaven means any good, baby.
_ _ [A] Lord, [E] have mercy
[G] on [E] me.
_ _ _ [Em] I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ got [E] a letter from a hot spring. _ _ _ _ _
I tell you how to read.
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ I got a letter from
a hot spring, baby. _ _ _ _ _
I tell you how to read.
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Lord, it's [A] coming [E] once for you.
[G] [A] Shut [E] up, girl,
it's dead.
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_ [E] I got a free train, baby. _ _
You know I tried to be my way.
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I _ _ _ _ _ _
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got a free train, _ _ _
baby.
You know I tried to be my _ [Em] _
_ way. _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ Lord, I'm rocks and gravel, and blue roll in my face. _ _
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[E] I'm
Lord, I'm a conductor, baby. _ _
Please let me ride it blind.
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Lord, I'm a conductor, _ _ _ _ baby, let me ride it
blind. _
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Lord, it's just a case of, boy, you know that spring ain't none of mine. _ _ _ _
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[E] _ _ Thank you.
_ _ Thank you so