Chords for Robert Johnson - They Sold Their Souls for Rock N Roll

Robert Johnson is considered [G] the king of the Delta Blues.
He's also considered the father of rock and roll
It is very significant that Johnson would be considered the father of [C] rock and roll as is alleged that he had sold his soul to Satan
In Clarksdale, [F] Mississippi in exchange for guitar [Em] playing abilities and worldwide [Ebm] fame _
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_ _ [Bb] It was after Johnson made his alleged pact with Satan that he became the king of the Delta Blues
Blues master BB King said quote as a musician Robert [Eb] Johnson had it all
I think he's the greatest folk blues guitar player [Bb] ever lived and the greatest singer the greatest writer
You know you think you're getting a handle on playing the blues and then to hear Johnson
[Db] _ _ It's still the most powerful
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I think you can find in
Music of the human voice blues master and Johnson's mentor Sun House said of him before Johnson's transformation
He said in our feet and played during the break and such another racket
You've never heard Sun House said he made the audiences mad with his racket
[G] Sun House went on to say of Johnson before he made his alleged pact with Satan that he was a talentless and even an
Irritating guitar [Bb] player, but he's following me and Willie
Around on Saturday night.
Yeah Willie Brown and every time we stopped the rest
And so that'll get that over the corner something and [Eb] go out to catch air, you know
[G] Play _ [F] it and be just noise in the people, you [Eb] know
_ _ Some of y'all going and meet that boy put that give that thing down he running us crazy finally
[Bbm] Let me run off from his father mother
Went over in Arkansas something [Eb] _
he was gone about [Eb] six
It [Gb] was during this period of six to eight months that it said that he made his pact with Satan on the crossroads of
Highway 49 and 61 in Clarksdale, Mississippi
It was at these crossroads where the legendary experiences of Johnson
Trading in his eternal [Bb] soul for temporary fame was said to have taken place in Clarksdale, Mississippi _
_ _ Well, they say you sold us [N] after the devil. _ _
That's what they say.
I heard a lot of people say that
He sold us after the devil went to the crossroad
After Johnson's alleged pact with Satan everything changed as
Johnson went from being the worst blues guitarist in a matter of months to the best some musicians who knew Johnson claimed that Johnson himself
Admitted that he sold his soul [Cm] to Satan
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[E] _ _ _ _ Somehow said that when Johnson returned after 68 months everything changes Johnson was transformed almost before [Eb] their very eyes.
He'd come back
_ When he come back me and [Bb] Willie Brown was playing out and he walked in
I
_ [Bbm] _ Said no, [N] I'm drunk come back with that Robert.
I see, you know, the people don't want to hear that racket
He said that's what they don't say what they want to say.
I want you to [E] see what I learned
Sunhouse said when he finished all of our mouths were standing open.
They couldn't believe what they were hearing
Sunhouse declared emphatically quote.
He sold his soul to the devil [Bb] to play like that
The rock and roll Hall of Fame has stated that Robert Johnson's songs are [E] quote the bedrock upon which modern blues and rock and roll
Were built he's not only declared to be the father of rock and roll
But the rock and roll Hall of Fame says that Robert Johnson stands at the crossroads of American music
Much as a popular folk legends has it he once stood at Mississippi
Crossroads and sold his soul to the devil exchange for guitar playing [Bb] powers
Incredibly Robert Johnson went from a guitarist who couldn't play a lick in a matter of months to a guitarist who like a medium didn't
Even have to practice as he channeled music from the spirit world at will.
I never seen him have to practice
Anything like that never seen him sit down and learn a song.
He already knew it
Once he attempted to play it he knew it.
He [B] had a built-in computer _
Everything he heard was there
[F] All they had to do is punch the button
Whether or not the crossroads of highway [Bbm] 49 and 61 are the exact place [Ebm] that Robert Johnson [G] sold his soul
We could not know for [A] sure
But one thing is [Bb] clear Johnson had indeed given [E] his soul to Satan this is brought out in his own lyrics which [Bbm] testify to this
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_ [Gb] _ _ [E] Robert Johnson had a genuine fear of Satan coming to collect his soul, which is vividly recounted in songs like hellhound on my trail _
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_ _ _ _ _ [E] Selling one's soul to Satan is a