Chords for Wizz Jones Teapot Blues Empty Pocket Blues

_ _ _ _ _ _ Tell me about Clive.
Clive Farmer.
Well I knew him in Soho.
He was a real character.
He played wonderful banjo in the Soho coffee bars.
And then of course I spent time with him in Paris _ busking along with various other people.
And yeah, he was great.
And then he kind of disappeared off the scene.
[Bb] I think he went up to Edinburgh.
_ _ And the next thing I knew he was in this band called Clive's Incredible String Band.
And we went up there and did a gig.
It was just this legendary club.
Yeah, it's an incredible club.
I remember that night.
How did you get into that club?
It was just a lift and it only held about ten people.
And there was about 200 people up there.
_ And this story's been told many times.
I went up there with Pete Stanley.
I was playing with Pete at the time.
And we were the guests and David Graham was the guest.
And the residents were Hamish [Ab] Imlach, Archie Fisher and the Incredible String Band. _
_ And I'd lived [B] with Clive _ in Barnes, in one of these houses [G] together with a load of people for a [B] while.
And there was a guy there called Brian Kennedy who used to play in the piano.
We sat up one night and wrote this kind of blues [E] that was based on a Beethoven change, A to F.
[B] _ And we wrote this blues that sort of _ _ _ _ [G] went_
_ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ I [Gbm] didn't even bother with that.
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Db] Da da dee [Gb] dee da.
_ _ [B] Do da da da [G] da da.
_ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ I guess we called it Kennedy's Blues.
_ _ And at the time [F] when Alan Tunbridge, [B] who wrote National 7, _ was the resident of the club we run in Putney, the Mojo.
He was a resident there with Mack McGann.
And he heard me doing this blues.
_ So he [G] changed it.
He was fond of writing kind of humorous Cockney pop songs.
[D] So he put it up into C and turned it into a jaunty sort of _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gb] out of date lyrics now.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
And he called [D] it T-Pop Blues.
_ _ [E] _ [Bb] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Gbm] _ _ [D] _ _
Which I'll play you in a minute.
But what actually happened was [E] Clive then heard it and then he put it back [B] to da da da da.
And added a minor [Abm] chord.
And stole [F] some of the lyrics from the original song.
And rechristened it Empty [B] Pocket Blues.
And the rest is history.
So this is how [G] T-Pop Blues goes. _
[D] _ _ _ _ My teapot's empty, [Bb] sweetie.
_ _ [D] And I don't know what to do.
_ _ [G] Seems like when you ain't with me.
_ [Gb] I [E] can't even get a [A] good brew.
_ _ _ [D] Even my [Bb] old kettle _ [G] is whistling [A] the blues [D] for you.
[A] _ _ [D] _ Me bed is [Bb] empty, darling.
_ _ [D] Cold as a frigid air.
_ [D] _ [G] I'm even hooked inside the gas stove.
[E] Maybe it's decorating [A] there.
But no.
[D] Keep thinking I'm here [Bb] in your stiletto.
_ [G] _ Running out [A] the [D] apples and pears.
[A] _ _ [D] _ _ _
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] Me heart is empty, [Bb] darling.
_ [D] I know what I must do.
_ _ [G] I've gotta find a new bird now.
[E] She won't be anything [A] like you.
_ [D] She'll make good tea [Bb] and toasties.
[G] Keep me bourgeois [A]
comfy [Gb] too.
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