Chords for Seasick Steve, Bringing It All Back Home (1)

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Oh, do you hear the music?
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_ [D] _ I hear _ it. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Will
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[G] _ _ you please welcome _ C-16!
Born in Oakland, California, spent a lot of [B] time in Tennessee, now living in Norway.
[G] He's been a hobo, a cowboy, a [D] busker.
A one-man blues orchestra.
You will not see [Dm] another man as [Am] emotive as [Bb] this.
Now everyone's talking [D] about the blues from C-16.
The unique C [Dm]-16!
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[D] _ _ [G] The unique C-16!
The _ [F] _
[D] most amazing C _ _
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-16!
[A] _ [D] _ _ [Gm] _ [D] _ [A] We're _ _ just outside of Clarksdale, _ Mississippi.
[Am] _ _ _ _ I've been living away from [D] America [C] for a long time.
Now, _ [A]
when I come here, I go on a search for, maybe looking for my past a little bit.
_ Stuff [C] like that.
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Also, I always get inspired again.
I don't know what it is, something like,
trigger me and it's like, [C] get recharged a little bit again.
[D] Play my crazy music.
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_ _ I _ [Am] don't even think of myself as a blues player.
I [C] just know I like [A] this kind of music since I was a kid.
All that [Em] blues music comes from like a real kind of tight area [N] around here, you know?
They all either lived here or come from here, you know?
Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson.
_ _ People like John Lee Hooker and stuff, you know?
_ For me, this place is sticking in the air with that history.
I just [F] come down here and it affects me, you know?
The minute I cross over that [Gb] Mississippi state line, I [A] feel different, man. _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Mississippi and some parts of Tennessee, they're just in a funny way like _ [C] how America used to [A] be.
You know, like a lot of America don't look the same no more.
I mean, literally, they just tore down everything and built shopping malls.
But here, this place looks old and funky. _ _ _ _
_ I know that the America that I _ remember and used to write about, it just ain't there no more.
_ That's all right. _ _
You know, I ain't the same person no more either, but you know, I just, I'm [C] looking for it.
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_ _ _ Yeah, it's just [Bb] like it is.
_ _ [Cm] That's all I'm [Bbm] saying. _ _ _
_ _ _ Ain't nothing but [Eb] that.
It's just _ _ like it is.
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[Eb] There's Hobson's over there on the right.
[Ab] _ That there's a famous plantation boy.
_ This is a [B] stopping point for a lot of old bluesmen actually worked there,
like Pinetop Perkins and Robert Clay.
And _ surely people like Robert Johnson and [N] Charlie Patton had some times there.
It just seemed unreal that these [Db] people would go out and work and on the weekend
[A] in one of these places [Abm] out here, they'd have a little party
and that [N] would be _ where the blues was being played.
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_ [N] _ _ _ Hotter than a firecracker.
_ _ _ Hard to imagine like fixing cotton now when it's this hot. _ _
Man, a 10, 12 hour day leading over. _ _
_ _ It's a hard world. _ _
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_ _ Well, this [G] here is a juke joint chapel.
That's [Gm] what they call it.
[G] And it's like an old cotton [Bbm] gym.
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They make it into like a, kind of like [C] a club, [G] _ a concert [B] place.
Me and [Dm] Cedric and Malcolm, Cedric Burnside and [Gm] Lightning Malcolm,
we're going to play.
We don't practice or nothing.
We're just going to [G] sit up and play.
You got all these funny signs around.
_ _ You got all the old iron _ corrugation.
Got like a little stage up here. _ _ _
Look at that big old bug.
It's a big old mosquito. _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ [Dm] Yeah, this place is [Am] funky.
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_ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [G] Oh, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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my God.
I'm a big dog.
_ _ I hear that just right, my [Gm] dog. _ _
Not just the man beside the road.
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I'm a [Gm] dog's house on. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ It ain't the kind of. _
_ _ [G] _ [Gm] You're having [C] your whole life.
[G] No, no.
_ You got to be a pro [Gm] at it, [C] dog.
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_ I woo.
_ [C] I _ [G] _ _ woo.
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I _ _ woo. _ _ _
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ My girl, she said, like, you know, you've been sitting here in the front room
playing this for 25 years.
But I don't want you in the front room.
So go in the kitchen and record some songs for me before you drop over.
So I went in there and recorded the songs, right?
And then this friend of mine over in England, he called me up and goes,
[E] have you doing recording?
I go, yeah, I made some stuff [Bb] for my girl.
I'll send it [C] to you.
[Fm] They made that into a record.
[Gm] And then that got like all famous.
[C] That record sold over [G] 100,000 records now. Congratulations, baby.
And I made it in the kitchen.
_ In the kitchen.
_ _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ [Gm] Now I'm going to tell you something.
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My mom and dad broke up when I was [Gm] four years _ _ _ old.
I was seven.
She went and got herself [G] a stepdaddy.
_ _ _ [C] _ [Gm] _ [C] Hopefully he was all right for a while.
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Stepdaddy going, oh, what hands of me on boys you have? _
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_ _ So after they got married, _ _ the boy started [C] _ [G] beating us a little bit.
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One day he come [C] into my bedroom [Bb] [G] and _ _ _ _ he threw me through the window.
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_ _ _ I was sitting there. _
I wasn't 14 years old.
_ But I figured I'd do [C] better on [Bb] my own.
[G] _ Things turned out all right.
_ Look at me now. _ _ _
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_ I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ don't know why things are so bad.
They're all right now. _ _ _ _ _
I'm going to keep playing my doghouse music.
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[Gm] This is a [G] doghouse song. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Just in the last, like, _ six months or a year, all of a sudden, [G] I can do whatever I want all of a sudden, you know?
_ After years of can't do nothing.
I think it's like one of them candid camera things.
All of a sudden they're going to go, we're [N] taking all your money away now.
_ Go back and live under a bridge.
[G] _ _ I'm going to wake up and this will all be like some [N] dream.
I won't even hear. _ _
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_ [E] _ _ [Gm] Hobo is someone who [C] travels but [E] who looks for work.
[D] And a [D] tramp is someone who travels but don't want to work.
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And a bum is someone who don't travel and don't [E] look for work.
_ _ I have been all three. _ _
_ _ I had a real bad family life and I needed to get away.
_ [D] [N] I wasn't great at it.