Tuning: C G C G C E

Artist: Taj Mahal Band: Taj Mahal Trio Song: Betty and Dupree URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAHXSZcmTyo (Live Recording) Location: Legendary R’n’B Cruise-19, S.E. Caribbean, 27/10/12 to 03/11/12. Tempo: 4/8 Style Cajun 12-Bar Blues (Slow finger plucked upwards) Tuning: Open C Chords: CGCGCe C 000000 (also XX0000) F/C XX0301 G5 X02023 INTRO: N/C C N/C C (Accelerando strums) “Gather round me. Every-body.” N/C G (Low open string) X 12 C (Low open string) “I’m gonna tell ya a story about Betty ’n’ Dupree.” BRIDGE: Instrumental (short plucked chords upwards) |C F/C C C| |F/C F/C C C| |G5 F/C C C| G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string) VERSE 1: (Finger plucked on lowest strings)

^CBetty told Dupree - before, ^F/Cshe want a diamond ^Cring, I said, Betty told ^F/CDupree, she want a diamond ^Cring. G5 (Hold) F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string) Dupree told Betty: Baby, I'll buy you any-thing.

VERSE 2:

^CDupree asked Betty: ^F/CBaby, won't you be my ^Cwife, Dupree asked ^F/CBetty: Baby, won't you be my ^Cwife, She said, "^G5I'm yours, I'm yours, big Daddy, F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string) Honey, for the rest o’ your life.”

VERSE 3:

^CBetty said Dupree, honey ^F/CI’m goin’ throw you a natural ^CBall, Dupree said ^F/CBetty, babe, I throw you a natural ^CBall. All the men ^G5dressed-up like zombies - ha, F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string) And the women, the women, walk right through the wall.

VERSE 4:

^CShe cried out, on ^F/Cit’s highest ^Cpeak, whoo! - whoo! She cried out ^F/Cfrom his highest ^Cpeak, ^G5They were loving, loving, loving, loving, loving, F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string) Loving, loving, loving, she could hardly even speak.”

^CBetty told Dupree, ^F/Cshe want a diamond ^Cring, Oh, Betty told Dupree, ^F/Csomeone Sheriff, she want-ta diamond ^Cring. F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string) Dupree told Betty, I'm gonna buy you any-thing.

VERSE 6:

^CHear me holler, ^F/Cbaby hear me ^Cmoan, Hear me holler, ^F/Cwhoa - hear me ^Cmoan. Oh the way you ^G5loving’ me baby, F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string) I can’t stand to leave you alone.

VERSE 7:

^CPut your arms ^F/Caround me, like a circle around the ^CSun, Put your loving’ arms ^F/Caround me, Baby, oh baby like a circle around the ^CSun, ^G5Won't you love me, love me, F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string) Love me, until the cows come home.

VERSE 8 & CODA:

^CBetty told Dupree before, ^F/Cshe want a diamond ^Cring, I said, Betty told Dupree, ^F/Cshe want a diamond ^Cring. G5 F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string) Dupree told Betty: Baby, I'll buy you any-thing.

[End] Notes. 1. I’ll annotate ‘Taj Mahal’s’ lead riffs, in a following TAB. 2. There are chord accents at the end of the first line in each verse, that sound not unlike ‘part C III-C III+part G5’ or ‘XXXX43-XXXX43+XXXX23’ but they have been omitted for clarity.

Taj Mahal - Betty n dupree