Childhood Blues Chords by Rai Thistlethwayte

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_ _ _ _ _ The reason I choose the blues to use is very simple indeed.
You see, the blues dates [Ebm] back to early days, the people who [B] had songs in need.
And that's the [Db] hook, it gives it a real hard look.
You find this song sounds better than a proper [F] diary.
I'm not so [Ebm] [Ab] timely, [E] I make the body.
_ [Eb] _ [Abm] I'd like to take you back [Db]
to [Gb] the roots.
[Ab] Yeah, [Ebm] so how'd I [Ab] shoot?
_ _ _ _ [Gb] [Ab] I was born in West Lee, [Gb] in [Ab] a little old [Gb] house beside Sydney.
[Ab] I had a super brother called Eric and a mother [B] and a father called Dean and [Db] Christine.
And when I was two, I had another kid come through.
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I guess it's what the [Gb] lot do, you know [Ab] when life's a trip, keep a tiny tie.
[Db] I have [Eb] a small memory of my dad coming [Db] home, giving me a pat on the back, and [Gb] putting [Abm] me in that car.
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[Gbm] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ [Gb] _ [Ab] We were running around, a three-star boy, he's low to the [Gb] ground.
[Fm] Just playing in the yard, looking [Gb] bold, [Ab] playing all [B] kinds of sports in the morning light.
[Db] You always [B] had that super [Db] brother, [Gb] this family vibe was [Ab] coming together.
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_ [Db] [Eb] Life's so damn sweet, [B] [Db] I'm located at World Trade, _ [Ab] _ [Gb] World Trade.
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Age of [Gb] four, [Ab] started flying, hands stomping [Ebm] on the floor.
[Ab] My parents heard the noise, [Gb] they had no [Ab] choice but to move on, then walk [B] in the [Db] store.
I didn't [B] know what was happening there, you see [Db] I'm too famous, playing rhythms on an [Gb] arm [Ab] jam.
I love the sound, [Gb] one, [Ab] four, two, four, four, in the summer air.
[Db] _ [Eb] [B] When I hit the keys, [Db] piano, nothing but the sexy, you [Ab] know music, [Gb] _
the ocean of [Abm] love.
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When I was [Eb] twelve, [F] the hand me the [G] whip, take [Eb] the hair.
[F] I played ball and drum [Eb] all the [F] _
[Fm] time, what do [B] I do now?
_ [Bb] I'm five, I'm [Ab] a few years, I [Bb] still be yawning, [F] but I'm going out and [Cm] drinking [F] beers.
I'm on the bars until [Ab] [Eb] sixteen, you [F] know I'm doing the best [Ab] band in the city.
_ [Bb] [C] This band came [Ab] out of town, I hopped, you know [Bb] it ain't right to be playing with a man and a half.
[F] I'm a child, I'm a scholar [Eb] to base, I [F] like a [Gb] low note in the [G] right [Gb] place.
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