Ma Rainey - Booze and blues
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Tuning: E A D G B E
Title: Booze And Blues
Artist: Ma Rainey, https://youtu.be/aPo7kamndkY
Author and Copyright: MississippiHans (arr.+tab.)
Capo: 2, optionally
Time: 4/4, Tempo Q=100, eighths are marked '+'. Play with swinging feel.
The chord names above the tab lines indicate the left-hand position. Use thumb-fretting when appropriate.
[Verse]
D + + + + G + + + + D + + + +
E|-----------------------------------|----------0-------1-------------2--|-----------------------------------|
B|------------------3-------------0--|-----h3--------3-----------3----3--|-----------------------6b--\----3--|
G|-2----2---2----2-------2-----------|-----------------------0-----------|------2--------2-------------------|
D|----------0----------------0-------|----------0----------------0-------|----------0----------------0-------|
A|-0---------------------------------|------------------2----------------|-0----------------0----------------|
E|------------------2----------------|-3---------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
Went to bed last night, and folks, I was in my bin
+ + + G + + + + + + + +
E|-------------------------------|-------------------0-----------------|----------0--------------------------|
B|---------------------------3---|------3---3----3--------3--------0---|-----h3--------3---3--------0--------|
G|------2--------2-------2-------|-------------------------------------|------------------------0--------2---|
D|----------0----------------0---|----------0-----------------0--------|----------0-----------------0--------|
A|-0-----------------------------|-------------------2-----------------|-------------------2-----------------|
E|------------------2------------|-3-----------------------------------|-3-----------------------------------|
I went to bed last night and I was in my bin
D + + + + + + A + + + +
E|-------------------------------|-------------------------------------|------0------------------------------|
B|------------------6b--\----3---|---------------------------------2---|----------2---p0---------------------|
G|-------------------------------|------2--------2--------2------------|------------------------2--------2---|
D|-------0--------------0--------|----------0-----------------0--------|----------2-----------------2--------|
A|-0-----------0-----------------|-0-----------------------------------|-0-----------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------|-------------------2-----------------|-------------------0-----------------|
Woke up this morning, the
G + + + + D + + + + + +
E|----------0--------1-------------2---|------------------------7b--\----2---|-------------------------------|
B|-0---h3--------3--------3--p0----3---|------------------------7b--\----3---|-------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------|------2--------2---------------------|------2--------2---------------|
D|----------0-----------------0--------|----------0-----------------0--------|----------0--------------0-----|
A|-------------------2-----------------|-0-----------------0-----------------|-0-----------------0-----------|
E|-3-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------|
police was shaking me.
[MoreLyrics]
|: I went to the jailhouse, drunk and blue as I could be :|
But this cruel old judge sent my man away from me
|: They carried me to the courthouse, Lordy, how I was cryin' :|
They give me sixty days in jail and money couldn't pay my fine
|: Sixty days ain't long when you can spend them as you choose :|
But they seem like years in a cell where there ain't no booze
|: My life is all of misery when I cannot get my booze :|
I can't live without my liquor, got to have the booze to cure these blues
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| h Hammer-on
| p Pull-off
| / Slide up
| \ Slide down
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