Chords for Death Letter Blues performed by Son House

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_ _ Well, this is a little piece of blues.
_ I like that.
Well, lots of people, [E] they like the [Bbm] blues [E] now better than they [Bb] did a long time [F] ago. _ _ _
Of course, they understand it better now.
They used to not understand what the B-L-U-E-S was, blues.
It is the same blues, but it really has a [Bb] meaning to it.
It consists [Db] of between male and female, _ two that love, L-O-V-E, love each other and get married.
And really mean love, not foxfire love.
[F]
Two kinds of love.
There's a foxfire love, and it'll boom up right now, and it'll go out right now, [Bbm] too,
if you don't watch it.
_ [Eb] _ This is [N] one.
Once _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
they separated, _ _ _ she died.
_ He got a [Db] notice about a letter, and I named it Death Letter, _ _ _ _ with black around _ _ the signature,
Death Letter.
I named it Death Letter Blues.
This way he felt about it.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ [Abm] _ _ _ _ _ He got a letter that morning, I rang it red, _ said, hurry, [B] hurry, [Abm] gal, your love is dead.
[Bb] He got a letter that morning, I [Eb] rang it red, _ _ _ _ he said, hurry, hurry, [Bb] _
because the [Eb] gal you
love is dead. _ _ _
_ [Abm] Well, he grabbed up his [B] suitcase, took out down the road, [Abm] and he got down to his van
on a cooling board.
He grabbed up his suitcase, and he took out down the road. _
_ [B] _ _ [Eb] _ Oh, and he got down to his van on a cooling board.
Well, _ _ _ _ he walked up close, _ looked down in the fridge, and the good old gal got to lay down
there and judge him a day.
He walked up [Bb] close, _ [Eb] and he looked down in the fridge.
_ _ _ _ He said, good old gal, you got to lay here and judge me a day.
_ _ _ _ [Abm] Well, back in the tent, there was a thousand people _ standing around the burial ground.
They didn't know her, until _ they let her down.
[Ab] _
Looked back at the same crowd, _ [Eb] _ standing around the burial ground.
_ _ _ _ They didn't know any love until they began to let her down.
_ _ _ _ [Abm] Yes, I fold up my arms.
I slowly walk away.
I say, farewell, honey.
I'll see you judgment [Bb] day.
I fold up my arms.
_ _ [Db] Yes, I'm [Eb] walking away.
_ _ _ _ I say, farewell, farewell.
_ _ I'll see you judgment day.
_ _ _ _ [Abm] You know I'm winning my rules.
I sat down and cried.
I didn't have no blues.
[G] I wasn't satisfied.
She went in my room.
_ Yeah, I sat down and cried.
_ _ _ _ I said, I didn't have no blues.
I just wasn't satisfied.
_ _ _ _ [Abm] You know, it didn't feel so bad.
Well, then, good Lord, something went down.
I didn't have a soul.
I turned my arms around.
I didn't feel bad.
[Eb] Tell me, good Lord, something went down.
_ _ _ _ I said, I didn't have a soul.
I turned my arms around.
_ _ [B] _ _ [Abm] You know, I cried last [B] night.
All that night before.
[Abm] I'm a saint, my way of living.
So I'm gonna have to cry some more.
I cried last night.
I said, all that night before. _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ I'm a saint, my way of living.
So I'm gonna have to cry some more. _
_ _ [Abm] _ You know, I thought I never loved
the four women in my life.
My mother and my sister.
_ My kid darling and my wife.
I [Eb] thought I never loved
the four women in my life. _ _
_ _ I said, my mother and my sister.
My kid darling and [Abm] my wife. _ _ _
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