The Blues Is Here To Stay Chords by Tab Benoit

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_ [Bm] _ [C] Lovable I learned how to [Am] tie my shoe.
I [C] learned that New Orleans was the [Am] home of the blues.
[Bm] Not long [C] ago one morning, [Bm] the sun [Am] in the city, [Bm] the blues [C] went rolling and tumbling y'all
up [Am] the Mississippi.
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_ [Am] _ _ [Bm] Up [C] through the Delta [Bm] to Memphis, [Am] Tennessee.
[Bm] Wherever [C] people struggle [Bm] y'all, you're [Am] going to be free.
The [C] blues is the music that [Am] fans are playing, that's [C] burning the so-called Little [Am] Boston Elm Motel.
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[A] _ _ _ _ [Am] The [C] blues is the music, [Bm] yeah, that [Am] anyone can feel.
[Bm] It [C] comes from the crowds of the people [Bm] that [Am] work the cotton fields.
[Bm] The [C] blues go out of pain, [Bm] but [Am] now it can heal.
[Bm] And the more [C] I sing it y'all, [Bm] the [Am] better I feel.
[D] Nobody can give it away, [Am] nobody can take it away, [D] nobody can throw it away.
[Am] And it can't even pray the way I can.
And [D] the blues is a feeling [Am] that will never die.
[D] And the blues is here [Eb] to stay.
Man!
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_ [B] _ [A] _ _ _ [Bm] [C] What would this world [Bm] be y'all [Am] without E.B. King?
[Bm] [C] Without Bobby Blue Blane [Bm] [Am] doing his thing?
[Bm] [C] Without the people who walk [Bm] up [Am] and howl and woof?
[Bm] [C] Without Jesse and Big Mama [Bm] [Am] strutting their stuff?
[Bm] Well, [C] well. _
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_ [B] _ _ _ _ [Bm] Ain't there [C] be no Elvis, [Bm] no [Am] Jeremy?
_ [Bm] A young [C] Eric Clapton y [Bm]'all would have never [Am] crossed the sea.
[B] Without old [C] Lightning Jimmy [Bm] Reed, money waters [Am] grow up on.
[Bm] Ain't a Beatles [C] and a stone [Bm] that'll never [Am] live on.
No, [Bm] no.
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_ [Bm] _ _ [Am] _ [Bm] well, well.
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_ [B] Tell the [Am] truth [Bm] y'all.
[C] The blues is the gospel [Bm] of [Am] a common man.
[Bm] _ [C] Story of a people [Bm] in [Am] a hostile [Bm] land.
[C] Built on a foundation [Bm] _ [Am] that'll never fall.
[Bm] Think the Bible to [C] crave, sleep [Bm] to break.
And [Am] tides for hogs [D] nobody can give you away.
[Ab] Nobody [A] can take it away.
Oh no, [D] you can't even throw it away y'all.
[Am] They can't even pray it away.
_ [D] The blues is a [Am] feeling that will never die.
[D] And the blues is here to [Em] stay.
Yeah, yeah.
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_ [A] _ [B] Let the blues play.
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Yeah.
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