Chords for Eric Bibb - 'Going Down Slow'

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I'll play a song [Eb] that I [E] learned from listening to Mance Liscombe, a Texas
songster who was also one of those older gentlemen who was _ discovered and brought
out to folk festivals and clubs in the late 60s, early 60s, mid 60s to late 60s.
Somebody who was a farmer most of his life but [Bb] really lit up audiences with
his real down-home kind of humility and wonderful guitar playing and singing. _
It's a song that has been done by a lot of people, was written by St.
Louis Jimmy
in 1940, [Fm] 42 I think.
A song called Going Down [Bb] Slow.
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[F] _ [Eb] If I don't [Bb] get well no more, _
_ _ [Bbm] _ my [Db] health is [F] failing me, _
_ _ _ [Bbm] I'm going down [Bb] slow. _
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Db] Would you ride [Eb] my mother, _ _ tell her to [Bb] shave my men. _ _
_ _ _ [Bbm] _ [Eb] Would you ride [Ab] my [Eb] mother, _ tell her [Bb] to shave my men.
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_ _ _ _ Tell her to pray for me, [Eb] _ forgive [Bb] me for my sins.
[F] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] I don't [Ab] need no [Eb] doctor, _ _ [Eb] he can't do [Bbm] me no good.
_ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ I [Db] don't need [Ab] no [F] doctor, he _ [Eb] can't [Bbm] do me no good.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] You know it's [F] all my fault, [Eb] _ _ I did my duty things I [F] should.
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[Db] People I don't have my fun, if I [Bb] don't get well no more.
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[Bb] [Eb] I don't have my fun, _ if I don't [Bb] get well no more. _ _ _ _
[Bbm] _ My health [F] is failing me, _ _ I'm going down slow.
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