Chords for Brownie McGhee - Cornbread and Peas

One of the longest lasting and most popular duos in blues history happened in 1940, the year when
Brownie met Sonny.
Now Brownie is guitarist Brownie McGee, a man who learned to play a
homemade guitar when he was six and recovering from a crippling bout of polio.
Now Sonny of
course was harmonica player Sonny Terry, who lost his eyesight when he was just a kid.
Now
separately they were great players but together they were pure magic and for over 45 years they
played concerts and festivals, recorded albums, played club dates all over the world and even
appeared as actors in a couple of Broadway shows.
Their music was their [Gm] own and like most truly
[Bb] great blues music, every note and every word [G] came out of the lives they lived. _ _ _
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[Fm] _ _ _ [F] I _ [C] _
[Fm] got a letter, a letter from my mother this morning.
I [Bb] got a letter, a letter from my [Fm] mother this morning.
[F] She said come [G] home _
[Fm] Lord, Lord, son come home.
_ Alright man.
[F] I ain't got no, got no, got no, _ [Bb] got no, got no, got no, [F] got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, _ [Dm] _
got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got _ [C] no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got no, got [F] _ no, got no, got no, _ _ _ _ _ got [Bb] no, got
July [F] and August, and I'll come _ home.
Mother, you know your son will come home.
And I heard him say, [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ cornbread and peas, like [Fm] molasses.
[F] I don't want nothing more, cornbread and peas, like molasses. by Cleopatra
[D] _ _ [Cm]
Lord [F] of the Pigeons
Woo!
Woo!
Woo! _ _