Chords for Mississippi Fred McDowell plays Louise

_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ [E] _
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I said, [B] Louise, _ baby, [F#] please don't do [E] me. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I said, Louise, _ _ please _ don't do me. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ [F#m]
Lord, I had no love [B] in St.
Louis.
[E] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] Now, I live here, Louise.
You're the sweetest girl I know.
_ [Bm] You caught me walking to Chicago, _ [B]
down in the Gulf of Mexico.
_ [E] _ Oh, Louise, _ _ please _ don't do me. _
[Bm] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ [F#] _
Well, I ain't had no love in [Bm] St.
Louis.
[E] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ You know that boat's up the river. _
She won't come down.
_ [E] I believe that my [Bm] soul, _ she's water-bound.
[E] _ Oh, Louise, _ _ _ [Bm] honey, please don't [E] do me.
_ [Bm] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Bm] _ [F#] _
[B] Well, I ain't had no love in [E] Los Angeles. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] You know that boat's up the river. _
She's on a bank of sand.
_ Guess you don't tread the water. _
I'll crash and never land.
[E] _ Oh, Louise, _ _ _ [B] baby, please don't [A] do me [E] wrong.
_ [Bm] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] _ [F#] _
Well, I ain't had no love [E] in [Bm]
St.
[E] Louis. _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [F#] I'm going to tell you something, [Bm] baby.
I know you ain't going to like it.
I'm going to quit you this time.
[F#]
I ain't going to take you back.
_ [E] _ [B] Oh, Louise, _ honey, [Bm] _ please don't [E] do me wrong.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
Well, I ain't had no love [E] in St.
Louis.
_ _ _ _ [B] _ I got a rough, shabby rock, a [Bm] rubber-boiled road.
[F#] _
I got a nice, clean [B] brown, satisfied my soul.
[E] _
Oh, Louise, _ _ _ [Bm] please don't [E] do me wrong. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [B] Well, I ain't had no love [E] in Los Angeles. _ _
[B] _ _ My mama bought me a jockey.
[E] _
[Bm] Papa liked me how to ride.
_ Catch me early in the morning, _ honey, late at night.
[E] _ Oh, Louise, _ [Bm] honey, _ please don't do [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] me wrong.
Well, I ain't had no love in _ [Bm] St.
[A] Louis.
[E] You know _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
your hair ain't curly.
You know your teeth ain't poor.
You ain't on some baby.
_ You can't shimmy in this world.
[E] _
Oh, Louise, _ [Em] _ _ [C#] [B] Lord, don't do me wrong.
_ [C] _ _ [G#m] _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [B]