Chords for The most influential blues song of all time.

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_ _ I [C] _ _ _ _
hate to _ see [Cm] _ _
_ that evening [Bb] sun _ go [C] _ down. _ _ _ _ _
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[F] _ _ Hate to _ see [Em] _
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sun go [C] _ _ down. _
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_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ Cause [G] my _ [D] baby, [B] _ _ _
he's done [G] _ love [C] this _ time.
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_ Gypsy [E] done told me, _
[Ab] _ don't you wear [Fm] no [Am]
black.
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Yes she done told me, [Dm] _ _
[G] don't you [Ab] _ [F] wear [C] no black.
_ _ _ Hi, Paul Mary [Ab] again, thanks for [C] joining me.
[Fm] Today I want to talk about St Louis Blues by the great W.C. Handy
and why I think it's the most important blues record ever [Cm] released.
_ _ _ Here's St Louis Blues again in that wonderful [G] television series
set in the time of Prohibition, Blues and Bootleg Booze, _ Boardwalk Empire.
All one go, _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ I'd rather [C] say Louis _ is [F] just as blue _ as [G] I _ can be.
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Amen.
[E] _ _ _ Before we continue, it would be remiss of me not to play
that original _ 1915 St Louis Blues recording by the Prince's Band.
So here it is.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dbm] In _ [Eb] 1917, America entered the war with US troops welcomed in London.
Black American musicians were already entertaining in [Ab] Britain,
including the influential blues guitarist and singer, [Eb] Lolly Johnson.
One band in particular, African Americans from New York,
[G] led by Jamaican Dan Kildare, were resident at a [N] nightclub called Syros. _ _
_ _ This is Dan Kildare's Syros Band now playing.
It's a recording of great historical _ significance.
The first ever blues record made by a black band.
Five Americans and [E] two Jamaicans. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] This _ 1917 St Louis Blues recording pushes [G] back by three years
against the widely held belief it was Mamie Smith with Crazy Blues in 1920
that was the world's first black blues [C] recording.
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