Chords for Tab Benoit "When a Cajun Man Gets the Blues" LRBC 2010

Put all of y'all in the yard.
_ _ So_
Maybe_
[F#] Maybe I can swap out, you know. _
[F] But somebody's gotta be cooking the [F#] crawfish, you see, so_
[A]
You gotta [D#] have a little group sitting up by the pot.
[F#] Some gumbo.
I'm wondering when they're gonna be ready.
[N] And telling stories.
[D#] Cause that's what happens around the pot.
[F#] Everybody's telling stories.
[D#] That's right.
Y [F]'all getting hungry?
Oh yeah!
[A] Me too, shit.
_ [F#m] Still got time.
_ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ This song got used in that hurricane.
[E] I don't know if anybody saw it.
Oh [F] yeah!
You should see it.
[F#] Not to see me driving the airboat.
Because that was one.
Kinda feels like this, but a [N] little slide sideways.
_ _ [E] _
But also it's a very important story.
About a place that's dying.
And [D#] it's still dying.
And it's [E] dying faster than ever.
We lose an acre every [D#] hour of the land that surrounds us in southern Louisiana.
[E] An acre every hour.
That's a lot of land going fast.
[D#] So places that I wrote songs don't exist anymore.
Already, you know.
I wrote this song in a place that_
I wrote it while being in that swamp [A#] and feeling the pain.
[F] The trees had something [F#] to say.
And the alligators had something to say.
And the snakes [F] and the spiders and all the stuff that y'all don't like out there.
That scares you.
Had something to say, you know.
[D] You gotta sit and listen [E] for a minute.
_ So I wrote this song. _ _
_ _ _ My [A] sonny, she [B] has left me.
[E] So good.
_ _ _ I thought [C#m] I [B] gave her my love.
[E] So _ she's _ _ [B] out there [F#m] with _ [B] somebody new. _
[F#m] _ _ _ [B] And I just [F#m] can't sit [E] here alone.
_ _ _ But it's so hard to drive with these tears in my eyes.
[A] And it takes a long [F#m] time [A] to get to me.
[A#] _
_ _ [Em] _ And all [E] I want, [B] Lord, is to hear her [E] pray for me.
[A] Sing my song.
[F#m] _
[F#] I want to catch a [B] man. _
[E] Catch the blue. _ _ _ _
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When [B] I feel _ [F#m] in the way [E] of the water. _ _
Lord, [D#] I know that [F#m] there's blues [E] in the corner.
If I could hold [A] back my tears and make it there.
_ Lord, I'd be alright.
But [B] I might need you.
[F#m] New Orleans, _ [B] _ _ [F#m] Elroy.
I don't _ [E] know _ [B] where I'd be [E] all without you. _ _
Will you be there [B] all for me, [E] all around? _ _ _
_ [D#] From Glafitt [F#] [B] to Thibodeau to Lake [D#] Charles. _ _
[B] Love from Concord Street [F#m] to Port Au Chien [E] to Grand Island. _ _
Oh, when I feel your little hand.
The bayou's calling my name.
And [A] that's an opera _ _ that I [A#] can't refuse.
_ I [E] said it's hard, [B] Lord, to miss you.
_ [E] _ _ Louisiana.
[F#m] _
_ [F#] Catch a man.
[B] _ _
[E] Catch the blue. _ _ _
I said it's hard, [B] Lord, to miss [E] you.
[A] Oh, Louisiana. _
_ [F#] _ [E] Catch a man.
[B] _
_ [E] Catch the blue.
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