Chords for New Orleans Jazz Greats "Marie La Veau"

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[Eb] There is a story [Gm] told many years [F] ago [Ab] about [Db] a voodoo woman [C] named Marie [Fm] Lebeau.
[Abm] Marie Lebeau, [Bbm] she was [Cm] a voodoo [Ab] queen.
Dead down London in Rue Bonne-Lige.
Marie [N] Lebeau.
Marie Lebeau.
Marie Lebeau.
Marie Lebeau.
[Fm] Marie [Abm] Lebeau, [C] she was a voodoo queen.
Way [Ab] down [Eb] yonder in [Abm] Rue Bonne-Lige.
[F] [G] There was a [Gm] woman named Marino Brown.
[Gb] [Eb] Well, she wanted [Gm] to know why her man had [Db] done stop comin' round.
Marie Lebeau [Bb] said, you meet [C] me at the dock.
I'll show [Ab] him chasin' another doll in Shakespeare [F] Park.
Marie [Eb] Lebeau.
[Db] [A] Marie Lebeau.
Marie Lebeau.
[Abm] Marie [Cm] Lebeau.
[Fm] [Abm] Marie Lebeau, [Gm] she was a [Cm] voodoo queen.
Way down [Ebm] yonder in Rue Bonne [Fm]-Lige.
Now, Marie Lebeau, she told [C] that widow [Fm] Brown.
[Gm] Well, you take [Db] this snake dust, [C] sprinkle it on the [Abm] ground.
Take it right [Bbm] up your front, steps to your front door.
[Cm] And your man will be home before the [Ab] rooster crow.
[F] Yeah, [Ab] Marie Lebeau.
[Db] [Ab] Marie Lebeau.
Yeah, Marie Lebeau.
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[Fm] _ [Bb] Lebeau, she was [C] a voodoo queen.
[F] Way down [C] yonder in Rue [Ab] Bonne-Lige.
[C] Oh.
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Well, [Bb] _ [Db] _ _ [F] _ [Eb] _ [Db] _ [C] _
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[Bb] [F] folks [F] used to come [Fm] from miles and miles around.
[Eb] Just to [Db] learn what [Gm] Marie Lebeau was [D] layin' down.
She'd get to these things where everyone would dread.
She'd [Ab] mess up the livin' and [D] talk to the [F] dead.
Yeah, [Eb] Marie [N] Lebeau.
Marie Lebeau.
Yeah, Marie [Dbm] Lebeau.
[Fm] Marie Lebeau.
[Abm] Marie [Bbm] Lebeau, she was [Ab] a voodoo queen.
Way down [Bbm] yonder in [D] Rue Bonne-Lige.
[Bbm] Sad news broke out [Fm] about the bigotess.
[Eb] And it [Abm] seemed like Marie [A] Lebeau had passed [Fm] away.
In [Abm] the St.
Louis [Bb] cemetery, she [A] was laid in a [G] tomb.
She was buried that night by the [Fm] light of the moon.
Yeah, [Cm] Marie [Db] Lebeau.
[Fm] Yeah, Marie Lebeau. _
[Abm] Marie Lebeau, she [C] was a voodoo queen. _ _
[Db] I [G] said, on the [Abm] way.
I said, [G] on the way down yonder.
In a new world, new world, new [C] _ _ world.
[Abm] [Cm] Lebeau.
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