Chords for Ray Wylie Hubbard performs - Mother Blues - live on The Texas Music Scene

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_ _ [D] The grifter's [C#] hindle from Ray [G#m] Wiley Hubbard is chock full [F#m] of tasty grooves and witty lyrics.
One well-crafted tune on that album is the autobiographical song Mother [G#m] Blues.
[F#m] Here's the song's story from the man himself.
_ Pretty close, it [C#m] really is.
[F#m] _ One _ name was changed.
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_ [F#m] And because he was innocent, it's because he was guilty.
But _ _ _ yeah, so [B] it, you know, _ _ [F#m] _ when I cut the song, I was very fortunate to know Tony Joe
White and kind of put in the reference to folk Salad Annie and he was very gracious
to [C#m] allow me to [F#m] put that on there.
So _ [E] _ it works well, you know. _
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_ _ _ I was a young man about 21 years old, y'all.
_ All I wanted was a stripper girlfriend and a gold top of that spot. _
_ Be careful of the things you wish for.
_ You'll not get them. _ _ _
_ There was a _ nightclub in Dallas.
_ _ It's called Mother Blues.
_ _ As well as Lightning Hopkins played and Freddie K and Pace and Deuce.
[A] And all [E] the dealers and gamblers and young white hipsters, they all made the scene.
[Em] _ [E] The girl at the door who checked [A] IDs [E] was just 16.
_ [A] Ah, it was not [G] a place for [D] law [E]-abiding citizens. _ _ _
[Em] _ Jackie Jones, he had him a habit.
[A] _ _ [E] He just couldn't stop.
[A] _ _ [E] He said, give me $500 and I'll sell you my [Em] last paw gold top.
_ I drove my daddy's car down to Ross Avenue and I sold it.
[A] _ [E] I guess I should have told him, alluded to the police and someone stole it.
[A] Ah, it was just the [G] first of many bad decisions [E] I had to make for the next 20 years.
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_ [A] _ Oh, but I [G] _ _
[E] had me a _ guitar.
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_ [E] Everybody knows that the real nightlife begins after the [Em] club's closed.
_ What they call after hours. _ _ _ _
It's 2 a.m. and everybody's gone but the band, the dealers and Jackie Jones.
And then the girls from the Lightning Strip Club come over after they put their clothes back on. _
So I'm at my [E] blues, I'm sitting on an amp.
I'm playing [Em] Twisted Shire. _
And this [E] tall, a drink of water walk [A] in, look [E] like she might have to shoot her way out.
[A] She come up to me, she [G] says, you know anything good on that [E] guitar?
I didn't say nothing, I just [A] kept on playing. _
_ She said, you ever [G] heard this song called Poke [E] Salad Annie?
I just kept on playing.
[A] She said every time I hear that [G] song my insides feel like [E] warm butter.
Just want to take off my [A] clothes and dance around in [G] my underwear.
I said, [Em] down in Louisiana, _ _ where the alligator goes to me. _
Well, that's all I knew of it.
_ _ But it was enough.
It was enough. _
So we headed off, me and this dancer headed off like a metaphor.
Like a metaphor for a hydrogen bomb. _ _ _ _ _
We [E] was in rich uranium, _ supercritical mass.
We was a chain [A] reaction.
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[E] It was a love and lust.
_ _ Mostly lust, but a mutual _ [A] attraction. _
[E] So there I was, boys, at 21 years old.
Oh, I had it all.
I had a fine strip of gold, friend, and a gold-topped Les Paul. _
[A] Ah, the future, [G] _ _
it looked [E] promising.
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_ _ But there [G] were _ dark [Em] clouds on the horizon. _ _ _
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She [E] was a beautiful girl, but she liked to drink tequila.
And, oh, that ain't all.
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_ And I come home four or five [A]
times.
[E] _ She pulled my Les Paul, [A] _
[G] [E] so we broke up, and she went to Hollywood.
_ _ She murdered an actor. _
She got [A] a job dancing on [E] the Hudson Brothers TV show and Molly Lester from Max Factor.
[A] Ah, I got over [G] her.
I got over her.
[E] _ I'm glad she done all right.
[A] I'm glad she done all right.
[G] Yes, I am. _
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But now me, I never busted through the gates until the big times were off the roll start.
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_ [E] For 40 years, I just been carrying around an old [Em] gold-topped guitar. _
_ [E] But love and faith are mysterious things in this funky old world. _
_ Yes, 20 years ago, I ended up marrying that other blues door [A] girl.
_ We had us a [G] boy, and he's 18 [E] years old now, and he's playing guitar. _ _
[A] _ _ He ended up [G] with that Les Paul gold [E]-top.
And what does he do?
He plays an [A] SG.
_ But I'm [G] very grateful for the time that I get [E] to share the stage with my son, Lucas. _
I'm very grateful for the time I get to share the stage with George Reeve on bass and Rick Richards on drums.
I'm grateful I get to write these old songs and travel around and play them. _
And the [G] days [E] _ that I keep my gratitude high and my _ expectations, _ _ I have really good days. _ _
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[A#] Stay with us, folks.
[C] We'll have [C#] Midnight River Choir with a [B] full performance coming up next.
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