Chords for Wendell B. - Mississippi Girl

[C] _ _ You know just the other day I [F] heard somebody say, baby is [C] there Whitney LB?
Why would you want to sing the blues?
[F] Well let me tell you, _ _ y [C]'all I was raised on the blues.
Ain't nothing [F] like the blues baby. _
Hey [Dm] brother, do you love [G] me? _ _ _ _
[F] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Woo!
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] Check this out y'all.
_ She greets me in the morning, [F] _ with breakfast and a smile.
[C] _ And all through the day, ooh [F] yeah.
Plenty of love is [C] going down, yeah.
And make no mistake [F] about it, I, she's everything to me.
_ [Dm] So whenever [F] I need [Em] love, _ there's no other place to [F] go.
_ I just jump on [D] highway [G] 55, [C] and it let me right off at her door.
That's why I love her.
Hey! _
[F] My Mississippi girl, give me that.
[C] I love her. _ _
She's my [F] Mississippi girl.
_ I ain't ashamed to [C] say I love her baby. _ _
[F] My Mississippi girl, Mississippi girl, look at him.
_ Whenever I need love, [G] _ there's no other place to go.
[F] _ Y'all I jump on highway 55, _ _ [C] and I do.
_ _ Pretty good news [F] all the time.
[Dm] Plenty [F] of real life to have, [C] yeah.
_ Plenty of good food, and [F] plenty of wine.
Plenty of wine.
[C] Like my partner Melway would say, a little bit of dancing at [F] the local home.
And the war, yeah.
[Dm] But I'm all about one o'clock, while the clock goes tick tock.
The [Em] DJ plays something kind of slow, [G] then it's time for me to kind of go.
We [F] in the house, kicking down the door, to the bed we try to go.
We can't play it, we fall on the floor.
[A] _
[C] That's why I love her.
My [F] Mississippi girl, Mississippi girl, [C] my love.
Oh yes I do.
[G] [F] Hey, hey, y'all we back with the request [Em] style.
We y'all right [F] here on [C] WDNDD.
LL on your ground.
Caller, what's on your mind?
Hey, [F] it's Elaine.
I'm a super low Mississippi.
And I want to hear me some Whitney LB. _
[E] Mississippi girl.
You got it.
Right here on [G]
WNDND.
[F] _ LL. _ _
This is what she told me.
She said baby as soon [C] as you get here, it'll be love and squeeze and hug and tease [F] and please. _ _
And we [C] gonna lick it and stick it and hug it.
[F] And we're gonna move on down the road.
See I ain't got time to talk no [C] more.
I gotta get on _ down [F] the road to my baby. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _
Hey y'all [F] my name is Whitney LB.
I done had a whole lot of fun with this.
And this one [G] goes out to [F] all my real blues lovers out there.
[G] _
[C] I _ [Em] met a few [Gm] over [F] in St.
Louis.
Mississippi girl.
I [C] done been way down in Alabama y'all.
[F] Oh, _ Mississippi girl.
I done [C] been to Georgia, Detroit, city, everywhere [F] I go.
[Dm] Mississippi girl.
[F] Way down in Newark, Texas, Tennessee, Ohio, [G] Undertow, Indiana, [Dm] Shantown, Casey.
[F] _ _ I been all around the world.
Yeah.
_ _ _ [G] _
[C] Mississippi girl. _ _ _
[Gm] _ [F] _ _ _ _ _