Chords for Bessie Smith - Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer (Audio)

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[Eb] _ 25 [Bb] cents, ha!
No, no, I wouldn't [Eb] pay 25 cents to go in [Bb] nowhere.
Cause listen here, [C] up in Harlem every Saturday night,
[F] when the eyebrows get together, it's just too tight.
[G] They all congregate at [Cm] an all-night strut,
[F] and what they do [Bb] is tut, tut, tut.
[C] Old Hannah frowns from cross town,
[F] gets full of corn and starts breaking them down.
Just at the [Eb] break [F] of day, you can hear old Hannah [Bb] say,
[Eb] give me a pig foot _ and a bottle of beer,
_ [E] send me gates, I don't [F] care.
I feel just [Bb] like I want a clown,
give me [Bbm] beer and a beer drink, because [Ab] he's bringing me [Eb] down.
He's got rhythm, yeah!
When he stomps his feet, [C] he sends me right off to sleep.
[Eb] Check all your [G] razors [C] and your guns, we're gonna be wrestling.
When [F] the [Ab] wagon comes, I [Eb] want a pig foot and a [C] bottle of beer,
send me cause [Eb] I don't [C] care.
[F] Slay me [Bb] cause I [Eb] don't care. _ _ _ _
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_ Give me a pig foot and a bottle of beer,
[C] send me gates, I don't care.
[F] I feel just [D] like I want [Bb] a clown,
give me beer and a beer drink, because he's [Ebm] bringing me down.
[Eb] He's got rhythm, yeah!
When he stomps his feet, [C] he sends me _ right off [Bb] to sleep.
Check [G] all your razors and [C] your guns,
do the shim, shim, shimmy, tell the [Bb] rising sun,
[Eb] give me a reefer and a gang [C] of gin.
[F] Slay me cause [Bb] I'm in my sin,
[C] _ [F] slay me cause I'm [Eb] full of gin. _ _ _ _ _