Chords for The Blues - Randy Newman and Paul Simon

He's gonna tell you about his dear old [F] mother, [G] earned up in a [C] factory in Springfield, Mass.
_ [B] He's gonna tell you [Am] about his baby [C] brother, [F] hustling [G] down the city [C] streets, [Bm] selling his ass [Am] for a _ [D] dollar [G] a bag. _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ [Bm] He's gonna tell [Am] you about his [C] uncle [F] Nettie, locked [G] up in a [C] prison out in Oregon.
_ _ [G] He's gonna tell [Am] you about his best [C] friend [F] Eddie, killed [G] in a bar [C] fight with a [G] pair of marines [Am] in the _ [D] _
[G] salo. _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] He's got the [Bm] blues, [Am] this boy, [C] _ _
[F] he's got the blues.
[G] You can hear it in his [C] music.
He's got the blues, [Am] this boy, [Em] _
[F] he's got the blues.
[G] You can hear it, you can hear [Am] it.
When I was nine years old, _ _ my daddy ran away [C] with the [G] woman who [C] met on the [Bm] train.
Oh, [Am] _ his little boy [C] ran to [Am] the room where his [C] piano [D] was playing, waiting for him.
_ _ [C] He played and he [G] played, _ he played and [C] he played.
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_ _ _ He's [C] got the blues, _
[Am] this [C] boy, _ [F] he's got the blues.
[G] You can hear it, you can [C] hear it.
He's got [Bm] the blues, _
[Am] this [C] boy, _ he's got the blues. _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] A year ago, [E] I met a girl.
[Am] I thought we'd hit a massive groove, [C] but you don't. _
_ [G] And all we'd [C] hit was the [G] blues. _
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[G] _ _ _ [C] He's got the blues, _
[Am] this [C] boy, [F] he's got the blues.
[G] You can hear it in his [C] music.
He's got the [B] blues, [Am] this [C] boy, _ [F] he's really got the [G] blues.
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