Chords for Everytime I Sing the Blues

Tempo:
80 bpm
Chords used:

Gm

G

D

C

Cm

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Everytime I Sing the Blues chords
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[G]
[C] [Gm]
[D] [Gm] [C] [Gm]
[C] [Gm] [D] [Gm]
[D] Somebody asked me [G] why I live the [Gm] blues.
I said the blues [G] is all around me.
[Gm] I just find something I can use.
[Cm] And I feel it running through me.
And I give it my heart and [Gm] soul.
I trust the [G] song I'm singing.
[Gm] Let the feeling take control.
[Eb] I'm just trying to tell the [F] truth.
Every [Gm] time I sing the [A] blues.
[G] [C]
I might think about [D] a woman [Gm] and how she's done me wrong.
I might [D] think about some hard times when I [Gm] was barely hanging on.
[Cm]
I might think about a brother who still can't make [Gm] his beat.
Or some [C] fallen sister [Gm] selling it on the street.
[Eb] I'm just trying to tell the truth.
[F] Every [Gm] time I sing the blues.
[Cm]
I find my inspiration [Gm]
in tears and desperation.
[Cm]
Sad, sad stories we all know so [Dm] well.
Now there's always one more story to tell.
[Gm]
[D] [Gm] [Cm]
[G]
[D] [Gm] [Eb]
[Bb] [F] [Gm]
[A] [Gm] [G]
Now here [Gm] I am another night, another town along the way.
Room full of people, [G] say they want [Bb] to hear me play.
[Cm]
Yes, there were some hard times I loved to yonder by.
[Gm] It took a whole lot of living to make a song come alive.
[C] Just want to tell the truth.
[F] Every time I [Gm] sing the blues.
[Eb]
I'm just trying to tell the [F] truth.
Every [Gm] time I sing the [G] blues.
[Gm]
[D] [Gm] I'm just trying to tell the truth, baby.
[Dm] [Gm]
[G] [Gm]
[D] [Gm] [D] The truth of the [Gm] life.
[D] [Gm] [D] I'm just trying to sing the blues in the night.
[Gm] [D] [Gm] [D] [Gm]
[G] [Gm]
[C] [Am] [Gm]
[Dm] [Gm]
[G] [Gm]
[F] [Gm]
[G] [Gm] [G] [Gm]
[D] [Gm]
[Am] [Gm]
[C] [D]
[Gm]
[C]
[G] [Gm]
[G] [Gm] [G] [Gm]
[G] [Gm]
[D] [G] [Gm]
[G] [C] [Gm]
[D]
[G]
[Gm]
[N]
Key:  
Gm
123111113
G
2131
D
1321
C
3211
Cm
13421113
Gm
123111113
G
2131
D
1321
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_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _
_ [D] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _
_ [C] _ [Gm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Gm] _
[D] Somebody asked me [G] why I live the [Gm] blues.
I said the blues [G] is all around me.
[Gm] I just find something I can use.
[Cm] And I feel it running through me.
And I give it my heart and [Gm] soul.
I trust the [G] song I'm singing.
[Gm] Let the feeling take control.
[Eb] I'm just trying to tell the [F] truth.
_ Every [Gm] time I sing the [A] blues.
_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
I might think about [D] a woman [Gm] and how she's done me wrong.
I might [D] think about some hard times when I [Gm] was barely hanging on.
[Cm]
I might think about a brother who still can't make [Gm] his beat.
Or some [C] fallen sister [Gm] selling it on the street.
[Eb] I'm just trying to tell the truth.
[F] _ _ Every [Gm] time I sing the blues.
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
I find my inspiration _ [Gm]
in tears and desperation.
_ [Cm] _
_ Sad, sad stories we all know so [Dm] well.
Now there's always one more story to tell.
[Gm] _
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_ [A] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [G]
Now here [Gm] I am another night, another town along the way. _
Room full of people, [G] say they want [Bb] to hear me play.
[Cm]
Yes, there were some hard times I loved to yonder by.
[Gm] It took a whole lot of living to make a song come alive.
[C] Just want to tell the truth.
[F] _ Every time I [Gm] sing the blues.
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I'm just trying to tell the [F] truth.
_ Every [Gm] time I sing the [G] blues.
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_ [D] _ [Gm] I'm just trying to tell the truth, baby.
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_ [D] _ _ [Gm] _ [D] The truth of the [Gm] life.
_ [D] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [D] I'm just trying to sing the blues in the night.
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