Chords for Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - Conversation with the river

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You know in order to live with the blues you've got to be moving you can't stay in one place
You know once you find out blues is nothing but truth.
You can't deny that
I've been all across the country
_ [Ab] Women's whiskey and money is about the only thing I sing about listen to this with it, please
conversation with a river _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ Oh
[Eb] What do you [Eb] say?
_ [Ab] I've been all _ _
across the country
[Abm] People I played the [Db] blues
[Abm] I played the blues in every town
_ Lord, I've been looking for my woman _
_ [Eb] _ Nobody's seen brown [Abm] as girl around [Db] _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] well [Db] if I don't find my [Ab] baby
_ People you know, [Ab] you know where brown is down.
_ [Db] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] I
[Abm] Had a talk with the river
_ And the river the river spoke back to me _
[Db] Said Brownie you looking [Eb] mighty lonesome
_ Full
full of [Abm] misery
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_ [Eb] Well, if you don't find a [Bbm] woman that you love
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Please come spend your [Ab] life with me
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You know [Eb] what?
I told her I _ [Ab] _ don't don't want to leave
[Db] I [Ab] know the woman I love
[Gb] She's still alive
_ [Ab] Well [Db] someday I'm going to find out _ I'm gonna take her
For a ride _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ Then we will spend our lives together
_ _ _ somewhere among the time
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_ _ [Eb] _ [Ab] Well, I don't I don't want to leave her I
_ Know the woman I love I know she's still alive
[Ab] _ _ [Db] Someday I'm going to find out
_ [Eb] Gonna take her [Abm] for a ride
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_ _ [Abm] _ [Eb] Then we will spend our [F] lives together
_ [Db] Somewhere [D] _ somewhere among the [Ab] time
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