Chords for Ray Wylie Hubbard---Mother Blues'---

[E] I'm very honored to be [N] here for Kent and then to be here
I've been out on [Ab] the road for a while and just had these [E] gigs booked and had to make but I really
_ Really appreciate it and glad to be here tonight.
So any I got a new record out just came out.
It's [C] called
_ [Ab]
it's _ called the grifters him knows got a lot of your favorite songs on it [E] and _
[F] All right, so we will do this for [Bm] mother Hubbard out there somewhere.
I don't know it.
[Ab] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ I _
Or what table she'll be under
[E] _ Now _
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[E] when I was a young man about 21 years old, yeah
_ All I wanted was a stripper girlfriend in a gold top last fall _ _
Be _ _ careful other things you wish for
_ You _ might get up.
It was a night club and dance
[D] [E] It's called mother _ blues
[D] _ _ [E] It's where lightning and hopkins played Freddie King
Every bits and [Em] do's _ [E] all the dealers and gamblers and young white hipsters.
They all made the [Em] same
_ [E] The girl at the door who checked IDs was just _ 16
[Em] It [A] _ was not [G] a place for
law [E]-abiding citizens _
_ [Em] _ Jackie [E] Jones, they had him a half
[D] _ _ _ [E] He just couldn't stop
He said give me five hundred dollars and I say you mean less fall gold
_ [Em] Through [E] _ my daddy's car down to Ross Avenue and I sold it
_ _ I guess I should have told him he alluded to the police and someone stole
[Em] It [A] _ was just [G] the first of [E] many bad decisions I was to make for the next [A] 20 [G] years _
All [E] but I I had me a guitar
now _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
[G] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ [E] _ _ _
_ for some reason
_ Looking at [Em] each and every one of you.
[E] I know that you know that the real nightlife begins after the clubs closed
_ _ What they call after hours
_ the reason they call it after hours because it's
after the hours
_ _ Business is over _
But you know that
_ _ It's 2 a.m. And _ everybody's gone
But the band the dealers and that's [Em] all and then the girls from the land and strip [D] club come [E] over after they put their clothes
Back on so I'm at my blues.
I'm sitting on an amp.
I'm playing twist and shout [Em] _ and it's [E] tall
Drink of water walk [D] in look [E] like she might have to shoot away out
She [A] come up to me [G] she says, you know anything good on [E] that guitar I didn't say nothing I just [D] kept on [A] playing
She said have you [G] ever heard this song called [E] folk salad Annie?
I [Bm] just kept on [A] playing
She said [G] every time I hear that song [E] my insides feel like warm butter
And I just [D] want to [A] take off my clothes and dance [G] around in my underwear.
I said [E] it down in _ Louisiana
[Em] _ Where the [E] alligator grows some mean?
_ _ _ Yeah
That's all I knew of it
_ _ But it was enough.
[Em] It was [E] enough.
So me and this dancer we hit it off like a metaphor _ _
_ _ _ Like a metaphor for a hydrogen bomb.
_ I wonder what that would be.
I'll tell _ [Em] you
It [E] wasn't rich uranium _ supercritical mass.
It was a chain [Em] reaction
It [E] was love and lust
_ Mostly lust but a mutual _ [Em] attraction
[E] So there I was boys at 21 years old.
I had it all [Em] I [E] had a fine
stripper [D] girlfriend and [E] a
gold-topped Les Paul _ _ [A] the _ [G] future
_ Ollie [E] look promise
_ but _ [G] _ _ [A] _
there [G] were
_ dark [E] clouds on the horizon
_ _ She was a beautiful girl, but she liked to drink tequila.
Oh and that ain't all
[Em] _ [E] And I come home four five times
ship on molest
_ _ We broke up she went to Hollywood
_ She married her an actor.
[Em] She [E] got a job dancing on the Hudson Brothers TV show and modern listening for Max [G] back
[A] _ I'm glad [G] she's done.
All right, I [E] got over eventually
Yes, I did.
[D] I'm glad [A] she's done.
All right
[G] _ _ Yes, [E] I am _ _
_ _ Well now me I never busted through the gates into the big time as a rock and roll [Em] star
_ [E] For 40 years.
I just carried around an old gold top guitar
_ but love and faith are
mysterious thighs in this funky old world it was _ _
23 years ago.
[Em] I [E] ended up marrying that mother blue store [A] girl
_ We had us [G] a boy.
He 19 [E] years old now.
He playing guitar
_ [D] [A] He ended up with my [G] less Paul gold [E] top.
Yes, it did.
Why is he do [D] he traded for [A] an SG?
_ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ _ [E] Broke my heart.
I _ don't know if he's gonna hang his life on a guitar or not
Very grateful for the time I get to share the stage with my son I
Grateful I get to write these old songs and travel around and play it for people and the people come out and hear me play
I'm very grateful for Cheatham Street warehouse being here _ _
_ _ I'll tell you what I really [Em] am
_ [E] If you notice they got a picture over there Willie and Jerry Jeff on the wall _
_ _ That was my gig I was playing here on this stage when Jerry Jeff and Willie showed up that's my guitar can't Bentley
_ Cut me out of the picture
but _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ I _ _ _ _
forgave him _ _ _ _ _
That's the kind of thing this place is you know, it's important here Cheatham [D] Street is [E] very important
I'm very grateful that it is here
[Em] I'm very [E] grateful to be able to come out here and play some of these songs for you tonight among these
_ _ Great performers that are also here.
So thank you very much in the days.
I keep my gratitude.
I earn my expectations
I have really good days _
Thank _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ [B] _ you guys very [Gm] much. _
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_ [B] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ Thank you
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