Chords for Jeffrey Foucault - Stripping Cane - Live at McCabe's

[N] _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ About _
_ 67 years [Bbm] ago.
_ I did a [Ab] about 60 [Fm] shows with a guy named Chris Smith.
[Ab] They're wonderful blues player.
He's gonna be here a little [Bbm] while
_ _ [F] I think he's coming in May.
It might be June.
I looked I was you [Bbm] know _ _ _
And so every night I would I [Fm] would go to bed in my hotel room [F] with Chris Smith or songs [Gb] just
Rattling in my head.
So I'd be [E] sitting, you know sitting there in bed when I woke up in the morning
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[Db] _ [Bbm] _ [Fm] _ [Eb] _ It was _ [Ab]
it was infectious [F] and it took me [Db] like a year to [Bbm] get rid of it
_ _ And then I wrote this [E] tune
[F] [Gb] It was essentially a [F] ripoff of his [Bbm] deal
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_ _ [Bb] There's no more
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[Bbm] _ _ _ Dance or [Eb] even stand
_ [Bbm] Upon this pin and tango and [Gb] bleeding sugar
_ _ [Db] my hands bleeding [Ab] ashes
from my
_ _ Won't you [Bbm] help me count my sheep?
_ _ [Ab] Won't you help? _ _ _
Count my sheep [Bbm] tonight _ _ _ _
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You make your heart a decoration
_ It's like a broken
_ violin
_ _ So carefully made
Empty and [Gb] taking on
the silence in
_ [Ab] Taking sack kill your pain
_ Won't you [Bb] help me?
stripping cane
_ _ [Ab] Won't you help? _ _ _
stripping cane
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_ _ [Ab] Stripping [Eb] cane for something sweet
_ _ [Bbm] Stripping came a man complete his boy [Ab] his heart
thing to hold both dark and [Bbm] light _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] Stripping came [Eb] no time _
_ The [Bbm] silent rain this empty bill
[Ab] She
_ _ Will _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [F] _ _
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_ _ _ I've _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ got nowhere to go now _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ Grab
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ breathing _ [Gb]
pulls to
_ _ _ [Ab] Breathing verses out of rhyme.
_ Won't you [Bb] help me killing time?
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] Now
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_ _ _ _ _ There's no more
_ _ _ _ _ Dance or even stand _ _ _
upon this pin and tango and bleeding
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My
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_ _ _ _ Won't [Bbm] you help me count my sheep?
_ [Ab] Won't you help?
_ _ Count my sheep
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_ _ _ [Eb] _ Won't [Ab] you help
_ _ Count my sheep
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_ _ _ _ Won't [Ab] you _
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