The Blues Is Here To Stay Chords by Tab Benoit

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_ [Bm] I [C] learned _ _ [Bm] _ [Am] _
_ _ [Bm] [C] that New Orleans [Bm] was a [Am] home of the blue.
[Bm] How [C] long ago one morning, [Bm] the [Am] sun in the city, [Bm] the [C] blues went rolling and tumbling, y [Bm]'all,
[Am] up the Mississippi.
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_ _ [G] [C] through the Delta, [Bm] up to [Am] Memphis, Tennessee.
[Bm] Wherever [C] people struggled, y'all, [Bm] struggled [Am] to be free.
[Bm] The [C] blues is the music [Bm] that [Am] fans are playing, [Bm] that's [C] burning the so-called [Bm] blue water [Am] in the mountains.
[Em] _ _ [C] The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ blues [B] is the [Ab] music, [Bm] yeah, that [Am] anyone can feel.
[Bm] It comes [C] from the cries of the [Bm] people that work the [Am] cotton fields.
[Bm] The blues [C] go out of pain, [Bm] but now [Am] it can heal.
[Bm] And the more [C] I sing it, y'all, [Bm] the better [Am] I feel.
[Gb] Nobody can give it [Am] away.
Nobody can take it away.
Nobody [D] can throw it [Am] away.
And it can't even be played away, y'all.
And the blues is a feeling that will never die.
[D] And the blues is here to [E] stay. _
[N] What _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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would this [Bm] world be, y'all, [Am] without B.B. King, [Bm] _ [C] without Bobby Blue [Bm] Blane [Am] doing his thing?
[Bm] Without [C] Kee Bone Walker [Bm] _ [Am] and Howlin' Wolf, [Bm] [C] without Betsy and Big Mama [Bm] [Am] strutting their stuff?
[Em] Well, well.
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[Am] _ _ _ [Bm] _ Ain't that [C] B.
Long Elvis, [Bm] no, [Am] Jerry Lee, [Bm] a young [C] Eric Clapton, y [Bm]'all, would have never [Am] crossed the sea.
[B] Without old [C] Lightning Jimmy [Em] Reed, [Bm] muddy waters [Am] grow up on.
[Bm] Ain't the [C] Beatles and the Stones, [Bm]
they'll [Am] never left home.
[G] No, no.
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[Am] _ [Bm] well, [C] well, _ [Bm] tell [Am] the truth, [Bm] y'all.
[C] The blues is the [Bm] gospel [Am] of the common [Bm] man.
[C] Story of a [Bm] people [Am] in a hostile [Bm] land.
[C] Built on a [Bm] foundation [Am] that'll never fall.
[Bm] Thanks to Robert [C] Clay, Steve [Bm] LeBrecht, and [Am] Todd's for Hawks, [Gb] nobody can give it away.
[Am] Nobody can take it away.
[Em] Oh, no, you can't [D] even throw it away, [Am] y'all.
They can't even play it away. _
[Gb] The blues is a feeling [Am] that will never die.
[D] And the blues is here to [Em] stay.
Yeah, yeah.
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_ _ [B] _ [Am] it [E] run the town.
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_ [D] _ [Em] Let it run the town.
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