Mother Blues Chords by Ray Wylie Hubbard

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[E] _ When I was a young man about 21 [B] years [E] old, y'all, _ all I wanted was a [D] strip or a [Em] girlfriend
and a gold-topped Les Paul. _ _
Be careful of the things you wish for, _ you might get them. _ _
There was a _ nightclub in Dallas, _ _ it's called Mother Blues. _
_ There's a world out in Hopkins, _ Freddy King even paid some dues.
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[Em] All the dealers [B] and gamblers and young white hipsters, [E] they all made the scene.
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The girl [E] at the door who checked [A] IDs [Em] was just 16. _ _
[A] _ It was [G] not a place for law [E]-abiding _ citizens.
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[B] Jackie Jones, he had him a [E] habit, _ [Dm] _
[E] he just couldn't stop.
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[Em] Said, give me $500 and I'll sell you my Les Paul gold-top.
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I [Em] drove my daddy's car down to Ross Avenue and I sold it.
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I guess I should have told him, he alluded to the police and someone [E] stole it. _
[A] _ It was just [G] the first of many bad [E] decisions I was to make for the next 20 [A]
years.
_ _ [G] Oh, but I _ [Em] had me a guitar. _ _ _ _
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_ Everybody knows that the real [B] nightlife [E] begins at the club's close, what they call at the hours.
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It's [E] 2 a.m. and _ everybody's [B] gone but [Em] the band of dealers and Jackie Jones.
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[E] And then the girls from the Landon Strip Club come over after they put their [Bm] clothes back on.
[E] So I'm at my blues and I'm sitting on an amp, I'm playing Twist [A] and [Em] Shout.
And this tall drink of water walk [Bm] in, look like she might have to shoot her [Em] way out. _
[A] She come up to me, [G] she says, you know anything good [E] on that guitar?
I didn't say [Em] nothing, I just kept on [A] playing.
She said, have you [G] ever heard this song called [E] Pope Sally Danny?
I [Em] just kept on playing. _
[A] She said, every time [G] I hear that song, my [E] insides feel like warm butter and I just want
to take off my [A] clothes and dance around in my [G] underwear.
_ [B] I [Em] said, down in Louisiana, _ _ where the alligator grows some mane. _
Whoa, _ oh that's [E] all I knew of it.
It was a nut.
_ _ _ [Em] So we hit it off, me and this dancer, we hit it off like a metaphor, _ like a [D] metaphor [Em] for a high.
_ _ _ _ [Dm] We [Em] was rich uranium, _ [Am] supercritical mass, we [Em] was a chain reaction. _
It was love and lust, mostly lust, but a mutual _ [Bm] attraction. _ _
[Em] So there I was boys at 21 years old.
I had it all.
[A] I [Em] had a _ fine strip of [Bm] girlfriend and [Em] a gold top Les Paul. _
[A] Oh, the [G] future, _ [Dm] oh it [E] looked promising. _ _ _ _
[A] Oh, but there [G] were dark clouds on [E] the horizon.
_ _ _ _ She was a beautiful girl, but [Bm] she liked to drink tequila and whoa, that [A] ain't [Em] all. _ _
I come home four or five times and shit [Bm] on my Les Paul. _
[Em] We broke up and she went to Hollywood.
_ She married her an actor. _ _
She got a job dancing on the Hudson Brothers TV show with Martin Lipstick for [A] Max Factor.
_ Oh, [G] I got over her.
[Em] I'm glad she done all right.
I'm glad she [A] done all right.
_ [G] Oh, [D] yes I did.
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[E] Well now me, I never busted through the gates into the big [Em] time with a rock and roll star.
[E] _ For 40 years I just carried around an old [Bm] gold top [E] guitar. _ _
But love and fate are mysterious [Em]
things in this funky old world. _ _
It was 20 years ago [Bm] I ended up marrying that mother [Em] blues door girl.
[A] We had us a [G] boy, he's 18 [E] years old now.
_ He's playing guitar.
[A] _ He [G] ended up with that Les Paul [Em]
gold top.
Yes, it did. _ _ _ _
[A] Now I don't know if [G] he's going to hang his life on it or [E] not, but I'm very grateful for the time I get to [A] share the stage with him.
_ [G] I'm grateful for the time I [E] get to play with musicians like [A] George [Bm] Reeves and [E] Rick Richards.
_ _ I'm grateful I get to write these old [Em] songs and travel around the world [D] and play them for [E] people and they come out and hear me play.
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[Em] And the days _ [Bm] that I keep [E] my gratitude _ higher than my _ expectations, _ _ _ _ well I have really _ [Bm] good days. _ _
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