Chords for Putting the Blues into Bluegrass by Steve Kaufman

[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D#] _ [D] _ [C] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A#] _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ Hi friends, welcome to my instructional recording called Putting the Blues into Bluegrass.
And I hope you like it.
What we've done here is come up with a bunch of titles _ that have blues in the title or
have a blues overtone to them.
Though they're bluegrass blues, they're not 12 bar blues necessarily. _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [A] _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [D] _ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _
_ Let me break that down.
There are a couple of things that are going on here.
One is we know it's an A minor.
[N] And I'm hitting this _ [A] pattern [Am] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Am] _ _ which [A] is used as a filler.
I want to give you another variation to this.
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _
_ [A] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Well, I walked up to my girl's old man [C] and I asked him for my true [G] love's hand.
Lord, Lord, I got them browns, [D] fairy blues. _ _
[G] He said, you are a looking galoot.
[C] And instead of her hand, I got his [G] foot.
Lord, Lord, I got [D] them [G] browns, fairy blues.
I'll _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ show you how this [G] goes.
_ _ _ Okay, I'm going to go down, up, up, down.
And it paused just like I said it in that phrase.
It's a down, up, up, down.
_ And _ [A] _ _
[F#] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
you're holding your F shape at the third fret, makes it a G chord.
_ _ _ So [B] I'm hitting the third string and then the [G] first and second, and then up on the third,
and then down on the first [D] and second. _ _
So this was the Florida Blues.
_ _ Let me play through it and then we'll go ahead and break it down.
One, two, three, four, [Gm] one, two, [F#m] ready, go.
_ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [F#] First [B] finger and [F#] then shift right back into second position.
Assume either on this [G] _ _ _
note [F#m] _ [G] _ or [B] after [A#] that, [F#] _
_ you [G] have another open string in which to shift.
You use your open strings to shift positions.
So Salty Doggles. _
_ _ _ And this one is a G to E to A to D song. _ _ _ _
_ Well, I was standing on the corner [E] with a low-down blues,
[A] a great big hole in [Em] both of my shoes.
[D] Honey, let me be [G] your salty dog. _ _
Well, let me be [E] your salty dog, [A] or I won't be no [Em] man at all.
[D] Honey, let me be your [G] salty dog.
All right. _ _
[F#] _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [A] _
_ _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [G] _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Breaks for you, high and a low. _ _
One, two, three, four, [Em] one.
_ [G] _ [F#] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
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_ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] _
[F#] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ [N] _ _