Death Letter Blues Chords by Chris Thomas King

[F] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
I got a letter this morning, _ how you reckon it'll read?
_ [Bb] [G] Said, hurry, hurry, the gal you love today.
I got a [C] letter this morning, _ _ how [G] do you reckon it'll read? _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ Oh, hurry, [C] hurry, _ the gal [Bb] you love [G] today. _ _
_ _ Well, I grabbed the master [F]
[D] case, took her down the [G] road.
When I got there, she was laying on the cooling load.
_ [C] I grabbed the master case, and I took her [Dm] down the [Gm] road. _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] When I got there, [C] _ she was [G] laying on the cooling load. _
_ _ _ _ Well, I stood up right close, I looked down her face.
I said, the good old gal got a little judging [Gm] day.
_ [C] _
Yeah, _ _ _ [F] yeah, [G] judging day.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] Said, the good old gal, [C] _ lady, [G] that judging day, _
_ _ _ _ _ looked like it was 10,000 people standing
around the burying ground.
I didn't know that _ until they let her [C] down.
And looked like 10,000 standing [G] around the burying ground.
_ _ _ _ [D] Well, didn't know that love [C] taught,
until it [G] began to [Gm] let her [G] down.
_ _ _ _ [F] When [G] I followed the mounds, I slowly walked away.
I said, farewell, _ _ I'll see you, judgment day.
I said, [C] I followed [G] the mounds, [C] and I slowly [G] walked away.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ Farewell, farewell, [C] _ I'll [Dm] see you, judgment [G] day.
_ _ _ _ Well, you know the blues ain't nothing but a whole shaking
sheer, ain't satisfaction.
_ What you do, [C] I said, the blues is a blow-dry [G] shaking sheer. _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] If you ain't had enough, [C] well, I hope [G] you never did. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _
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When I hush, _ I put her to call me.
_ It sounds so clear, so nice and faint.
[C] _ Yeah, _ _ oh, [G] yeah, yeah. _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ Oh, [C] _ _
[Gm] yeah.
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Well, you know, it's so hard to love someone who don't love you.
Ain't satisfaction.
Yeah, what you do [C] is so hard to [G] love someone who don't love you. _ _ _ _
_ [D] Look like it ain't [C] satisfaction.
Don't [G] care now what you do. _ _ _ _ _
Well, woke up this morning, _ _ break of day,
just hugging the pillow where she used to lay.
I [C] said, soon this morning, _ _ [G] yeah, just break of day. _ _ _ _ _
[D] Well, I'm hugging the pillow [C] _ where my [G] good girl used to lay. _ _ _ _ _
_ I woke up this morning, been around for my shoes.
By that, I must have [Gm] been walking [G] [C] blues.
_ Yeah, _ _ [G] oh, yeah. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] Oh, yeah.
[C] _ _
[G] Yeah.
_ _ Oh, _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ yeah. _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
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