Chords for B.B. King - Goin' Down Slow

_ _ [B] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ [A] _
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Thank _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
you so much [Ab] ladies and gentlemen right here, _ [B] _ _
right here I'd like to tell you a little story.
[E] _ _ [Ab] _
This is about a country boy [B] from down home. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gbm] This young man has never [Eb] been north before.
_ [Bm] I want you to listen to me now, I've got something to tell you.
_ _ _ _ _ He heard about Chicago.
_ He worked hard all the year, [G] made all [B] of that money.
[Em] Eight hundred [Ab] dollars.
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Cousin [Db] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
[G] in Chicago.
And he said, cousin!
On the way, [Ab] _ he picked all of that cotton.
_ [Gb] I said this is about a country boy like myself, [Dbm] B.B. King, you know.
[B] _ _ So when he get to Chicago, _
[Em] his cousin meet [Ab] him and bring him out to the club. _ _
_ _ _ He said, set him up! _ _
_ _ Cousin's [B] paying for it.
[Gbm] Had all the go-go [E] girls sitting [Ab] out waiting on him.
_ They carried him downtown and put him up in one of the plush hotels. _ _
_ _ _ [B] They brought him back out and said, set him up!
_ _ [E] _ _ Cousin's paying for [Db] it.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ [Em] _ _
[Db] _ [G] His money got a little lighter.
_ They moved him out from Duluth and brought him down to Roberts.
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[G] _ [E] _ _ [Gb] _ And then he said, set him up!
_ _ _ Cousin's paying for it.
[Ab] _
_ _ [G] _ _ And then the eight hundred dollars, being [E] more money than my man had [Eb] ever had, began to run out. _
_ Then they moved him out and put him_
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Ladies and gentlemen, [G] the go-go girls was getting fewer. _
His friends was fewer.
_ _ All his buddies had [B] started passing him on the other side of the street. _
[Dbm] And then it happened, all his money was gone. _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ [Em] And my [Ebm] man only knew one thing [D] to do.
It was getting cold then [Eb] like it is today.
You know what I'm [Abm] talking about. _ _ _
_ He [Gb] went down to the railroad yard. _
And one of the few ladies that had [Db] helped him [B] to spend his money came by to see him.
And [Em] she said, you fool, _ _ _ you fool.
_ [Db] _ _ I wouldn't have [Gb] spent your money, but the rest of them was spending [E] your money,
so I decided to spend my portion too, you know.
_ [Ab] _ But ladies, God bless them, wonderful something, aren't they?
_ _ _ They always like to feel like they're needed.
And she knew my man needed a bed.
_ _ _ [E] He'd gotten sick. _
_ He's laying down there under the boxcar. _
_ Couldn't read so [G] well.
[N] So you know if he couldn't read so well, he couldn't write too well.
You know what I'm talking about.
So [Gb] this is a letter back down home.
I know what I'm talking [B] about.
It go like this.
I've had my fun.
_ [Gb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ Won't _ get well [B] no more. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [F] _ [Gb] _ Beaver.
[Bm] Oh, my [Ebm] dog.
[B] Get _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Gb] _ [B] _ _
_ [G] _ [Dbm] help that's failing on [Ebm] me now, beaver.
_ _ _ [Ab] And _ _ _
_ [B] I'm going down [A] slow.
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_ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [B] Yeah, tell mother, beaver.
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Of a shape [B] I'm in.
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] _
_ [B] _ _ _ People, _ _
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mother. _ _ _ _ _ _
Tell her of [B] a shape [Eb] I'm [Abm] in.
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[G] Tell her to [E] pray for _ _ _ [D] me.
[Dbm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [G] _ _ [Ab]
Forgive me for [Abm] my sins. _ _
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Oh, _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ mother, _ _
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[Dbm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Ab] you know I'm out of [B] the way. [Dbm] Yeah.
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