Chords for TAB BENOIT - "THE BLUES ARE HERE TO STAY"

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_ _ [Bm] Long [C] before I learned [B] how to [Am] tie my shoes, [Bm] I [C] learned that Rhode Island [B] was the [A] home of the blue.
[Bm] I learned [C] about one [Bm] morning, the [Am] sun is [Bm] shinin', the roads [C] went rolling and turning, [B] y'all.
Up [Am] from Mississippi, _ [A] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
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_ _ [Bm] up [C] through Delta, [B] up to Memphis, [Am] Tennessee, _ [B] wherever [C] people struggle, y [B]'all, struggle [Am] to be free.
[Bm] The [C] blues is the [Bm] music that [Am] fell plain, [Bm] that [C] burned the soul, [Bm] y'all, when the water [A] held no change.
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_ _ [Bm] The [C] blues is the music [Bm] that any [Am] walkin' fiend [Bm] can touch [C] from the prize of a [Bm] soul.
I learned about [Am] every deal, [B] but I learned [C] about pain, [Bm] and now I [A] can heal [Bm] from [C] all the sins, y'all.
[Bm] All the time [Am] I'm here, nobody [D] ain't ever waiting, [Am] nobody ain't taking away, nobody [D] ain't gonna hold me waiting,
_ [Am] and I'm ready waiting _ [D] for you, [Am] and I will never die, [D] not a blues is here [Em] to save you.
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_ _ [Bm] I'm [C] gonna swear on me, [Bm] when I [Am] be king, [Bm] when I [Cm] find me new land, [Em] y'all do the [Am] same.
When [Bm] I'm [C] a dreamer on the water, [Bm] and [Am] a pound in the water, [Bm] when I'm [C] blessed and be mine, [Bm] I'm gonna trust in [A] the Lord.
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_ _ [Bm] _ [C] Ain't no Elvis, [Bm] no [Am] Jeremy, [Bm] or your [C] and Pat's, and y'all, [Bm] it would have never [Am] crossed the sea,
[Bm] without old [C] Lightning, Jimmy Reed, [Bm] and Muddy Waters [Am] to call upon.
[Bm] When the white wheels [C] and the stones, [Bm] they're the little [Am] boys I'm from, nobody [D] can do, _ [Am] nobody gonna take away, nobody gonna hold me waiting,
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and I'm ready waiting [D] for you, _ [Am] and I will never die, [D] not a blues is here to [Em] save you.
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[A] _ _ _ [C] Blues _ _ _
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[D] _ _ [B] _ _ [D] _ _ is coming [A] up, blues [C] _ _ [D] is [A] _
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_ _ [B] _ _ [C] a god form [Am] of the common man, [B] the [C] story of a people [Bm] and [Am] a hostile land,
[Bm] we [C] are not a foundation, [Bm] _
[Am] love will never fall, [B] I come from Bama [C] Crest, Stevie [Bm] Ray,
[Am] I'm tired of my heart, [D] nobody can break it, nobody [Am] gonna take it away, nobody [D] gonna hold me waiting,
[Am] and I'm ready waiting [A] _ [D] for you, and [Am] I will never die, not [Dm] a blues is here [Em] to save you.
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