Chords for "Milwaukee Blues" Dom Flemons Earl Scruggs Center LiveInTheMusic.com

In the exhibit there's a really great section on [E] the _ [N] precursors to the Earl Scruggs style of three finger banjo.
_ Because, you know, North Carolina banjo picking, there was two finger style, which Earl talks about actually in the videos himself,
that he used to do kind of a two finger style with thumb and one finger.
And then he added that extra finger and, you know, got the _ [G] _
little [A] extra bits.
You see, I never could do Scruggs style full on.
[Em] That's beyond my little range.
I just tend to strum _ [A] well. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] But there's a little section on [N] some of the folks who did a three finger type style that preceded the Scruggs style.
And one of those fellows was a fellow by the name of Charlie [Em] Poole.
And a few years back I got to [A] meet one of _ Charlie Poole's, [N] I guess it was his fiddler, Posey _ Roar's _ great nephew, Kenny Roar.
And he lives out in Danville and he plays a lot of Charlie Poole's old songs.
And one of them that I learned from him was one called [C] Milwaukee Blues.
And I'll play a little bit of that one for you.
This one's about hobos and trains [E] and how the, well, the trains don't particularly care for the hobos because, you know, no money was exchanging hands.
But I'll play this one nevertheless here with some [C] of the ways the hobos got around. _
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] Gotta get the freight [F] train to leave [C] this town, cause they don't have no hobos hanging around.
[F] Hanging around, [C] just hanging around. _
They don't have no hobos hanging around.
They don't have no hobos hanging around here.
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_ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ I left Atlanta one day before the [G] break of day, said you'll all have to pay.
Got no money [F] but a pair of home [C] shoes, I'm going out west [G] to go to Milwaukee.
[F] Milwaukee Blues.
_ [Bm] Yes, [C] Milwaukee Blues. _ _
Going out west to go to Milwaukee. _ _ _
What do you got to say, Banjo?
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_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ Now old Bill said before he [G] died, two old roads he liked to ride.
Old Bill [F] and [C] me, yes, the Southerners [G] saved against [C] Sandy.
Sandy.
[F] _ _ [C] Yes, Sandy. _ _ _
Yes, the Southerners saved against Sandy.
_ _ Now old Bill said before he [G] died, I'll clear the roads on the bowling ride.
When they [F] ride, they ride the [C] rods, they put all their trust in the hands of God.
[F] The hands of God.
[C] Yes, hands of God.
They put all their trust in the hands of God. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Thank you so much, folks. _