Chords for Death Letter Blues - Slide Guitar - Delta Blues - Edward Phillips

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[D] So Sunhouse was one [N] of the most important Delta Blues singers.
He was a huge influence on Robert Johnson, and he was [Dm] rediscovered in the 60s, and this was his song, Death Letter Blues.
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[G] [Gm] I said, the girl you look as dead.
Well, I grabbed up my suitcase and I [C] took off down the road.
By the time I got there she [F] was laying [Bb] [G] on the cooling [Bb] [G] [D] board.
Well, I grabbed up my [C] suitcase and [F] I took [Bb] off down [G] the road.
[Bb] [G] [Gm] By the time I got there, she was laying on the cooling board.
I didn't know I loved her till they began, they began to let her down.
[C] Well, it looked like ten thousand people was standing [F] around the [Bb] building [Gm] ground.
[D] I didn't know I loved [C] her till they began [F] to let her [Bb] down.
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[Bb] [G] Thought I [Gm] didn't feel so [G] bad [Gm] till the good Lord's son went down.
I didn't have a soul [G] [Gm] to throw my arms around.
[C] Well, it looked like ten thousand people was standing around the building ground.
Thought I didn't feel so bad till the good [Dm] Lord's [Bb] son went [Gm] down.
[G] [D] I didn't have a soul [C] to throw [F] my arms [Bb] around.
[Gm]
It's so hard to love someone who don't love you.
[F] [Gm] Don't look like satisfaction, [G] [Gm] don't care what you do.
You know [C] it's so hard to love someone [F] who don't [Bb] love you.
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[Bb] [G] [D] Don't look like [G] satisfaction, [C] I don't [F] care what you [Bb] do.
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[F] [Gm] [G] Well, [Gm] love, hard or fall, make you do things you don't want to [F] do.
[Gm] Love sometimes will leave you feeling sad and [C] blue.
Well, love's hard or fall, make you do [F] things you don't [Bb] want to do.
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[F] [Bb] [G] [D] Love sometimes [Gm] [C] will leave you [F] feeling sad and [Gm] blue.
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[D] So Sunhouse was one [N] of the most important Delta Blues singers.
He was a huge influence on Robert Johnson, and he was [Dm] rediscovered in the 60s, and this was his song, Death Letter Blues.
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_ [Gm] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Gm] _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ [Bb] _ [G] _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Gm] _ I said, the girl you look as dead. _
Well, I grabbed up my suitcase and I [C] took off down the road.
By the time I got there she [F] was laying [Bb] [G] on the cooling _ [Bb] _ [G] _ _ [D] board.
Well, I grabbed up my [C] suitcase and [F] I took [Bb] off down [G] the road. _
[Bb] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Gm] By the time I got there, she was laying on the cooling board.
I didn't know I loved her till they began, they began to let her down.
[C] Well, it looked like ten thousand people _ was standing [F] around the [Bb] building [Gm] ground. _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] I didn't know I loved [C] her till they began [F] to let her [Bb] down.
[G] _ _
_ [Bb] _ [G] _ Thought I [Gm] didn't feel so [G] bad [Gm] till the good Lord's son went down.
I didn't have a soul [G] [Gm] to throw my arms around.
[C] Well, it looked like ten thousand people was standing around the building ground.
Thought I didn't feel so bad till the good [Dm] Lord's [Bb] son went [Gm] down. _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] I didn't have a soul [C] to throw [F] my arms [Bb] around.
[Gm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ It's so hard to love someone who don't love you.
[F] _ [Gm] Don't look like satisfaction, [G] _ [Gm] don't care what you do.
You know [C] it's so hard to love someone [F] who don't [Bb] love you.
[G] _ _
_ [Bb] _ [G] _ _ _ [D] Don't look like [G] satisfaction, [C] _ I don't [F] care what you [Bb] do.
[G] _ _
[F] _ [Gm] _ [G] _ Well, [Gm] love, hard or fall, make you do things you don't want to [F] do.
[Gm] Love sometimes will leave you feeling sad and [C] blue.
Well, _ love's hard or fall, _ make you do [F] things you don't [Bb] want to do.
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[F] _ [Bb] _ [G] _ _ _ [D] Love sometimes [Gm] _ [C] will leave you [F] feeling sad and [Gm] blue. _ _
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