King Of The Delta Blues Chords by The Marshall Tucker Band

_ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] Hmmm, [D] yes.
_ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ [D] In _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ [Dm] _ _ _ Mississippi, [C] south of the [G] delta,
_ _ [D] Julia [C] Dodds had a [G] son.
_ [D] On the day he was born, [C] in [G] 1911,
[D] no way for no one to [C] know,
[G] someday he'd be [D] the one.
_ _ [C] _
_ [G] Yes.
[D] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ Learned to play some guitar, [C] from his friend [D] Boyd Willie Brown.
_ Noah Johnson gave [G] him a name.
_ [D] Went down the crossroads, [C] dealing with [G] the devil.
_ [Dm] Robin Leroy's life, [C] would never [G] be the same.
_ _ [F] Everybody [G] called him,
the king of the [D] dance of music. _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ [D] The devil made an [G] offer, he [Dm] just could [D] not refuse. _ _
_ _ _ [A] Crawled in his sandal the day,
[G] of a hellhound [F] on a trail, from [D] town to town. _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
Traveled round the country, [C] _ [G] playing the blues,
[D] like no one else had [C] ever done.
[G] _ _ [D] Say he loved the ladies, [C] but he never [G] stayed too long.
[D] _
Living his life out,
_ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ _
[F] everybody [G] called him,
[D] the king of the dance of blues.
_ The _ _ [G] _ _
[Fm] _ [G] devil made an offer, he [D] just could not refuse.
Just could not refuse.
_ [A] And he sang on the day,
[A] [G] of a hellhound on his [F] trail, [D] traveling the blues.
The devil made an offer, _ _ [C] he _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [C] just could not refuse.
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ Traveled _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] round the country, [C] playing the blues,
like no one else [G] had ever done.
[D] _
Living his life out,
everybody called him,
[C] the king of the dance [G] of blues.
[D] The devil made _ _ [C] an offer, he just could not refuse.
[G] Three long [Dm] days,
for the devil king to [C] lose his life.
[G] _ _ _ _
[Fm] [G] Everybody called him,
the [F] king of the [D] dance of blues.
The devil _ _ _ [G] _ _
[A] made [G] an offer, he [F] just could [D] not refuse.
No, no, no.
_ _ [A] And he sang on the day,
[A] [G] of a hellhound on his [Dm] trail, [D] traveling the blues.
He had to [Dm] travel the blues,
Long [A] when he sang on the day,
talking [G] about a hellhound on [F] his trail, traveling [D] the blues.
Long when he _ [A] sang on the day,
[G] of a hellhound on his [F] trail, traveling [D] the blues.
He had to travel the blues. _ _ _ _
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