Chords for King Of The Delta Blues
Tempo:
86 bpm
Chords used:
D
G
A
F
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret

Start Jamming...
[D]
[D] We're gonna play the blues for you right now.
We'll do a tribute to Robert Johnson.
God bless the man
[Em] Here so I gotta tell you this story my
My [F] grandpa was 90 97 years [Em] old.
You heard this song.
He said is it Chris?
I heard that song he wrote about that guy was born in 1911.
I was born in [D] 1910
[C] [Em] [D]
[C] [G] [D]
[G] [B]
[D] [C] [G]
[A] [Bm]
[D] I had a son [G]
from the day he was born back in 1911
[D] Ain't no way but no one's enough
[Bm] Someday he'll be [Dm] the one
[D]
[Dm]
[D] Well [A] he learned to play some guitar [C] from his friend boy [G] Willie Brown
[D] Noah Johnson [A] gave him a name
[G] You [D] went down to the crossroad
dealing with the [G] devil
[D] Robin Leroy's life
Will never [G] be the same
[F]
Everybody call [G] him
[F] Here [D] we go
Never [A] [G]
made it up just
[D]
[A]
[G] [Dm] [D] Traveling rules
[A] [C] [D]
Travel around the country
[C] [Bm] play the blues
[D] Like no one else had ever done
[Bm] [D] Well, they say love the ladies
You don't never stay [Bm] too [B] long
[D]
living his life
[A] [G]
Everybody call him
[F] Here [D] we go
Never [G]
[F] made it up
[G] Just [A] gonna rip you
out of there
[D] [A] And he sang on the tail
Bloody hell I'm on the [F] tail
And [D] traveling rules
[C] Traveling rules
[D]
[A] Traveling rules
[D]
[A] [G] [D]
[C] [Bm] [B] [D]
[Bm] [G] Traveling rules Oh yeah
[Dm] [F] [A] [F]
[D]
[G] [A]
[D]
[C] Traveling [G] rules
[D] Traveling rules
[C] [G] [D] Well just outside of Greenwood
[C] At the three-fourth [Bm] saloon
[F] [D]
He got too close to another [C] man's wife
[G] [D] When he drank the poison whiskey
[C] Still took [Bm] long [Dm] days
[D]
For the Delta King to [C] lose his life
[Bm] [F]
[G] Everybody call him
[F] King of the [D] Delta Blues
[G]
[F] Never made it up
Just [F] [A] gonna rip you
[D] [A] And he sang on the tail
[G] Bloody hell I'm on the [F] tail
And traveling [D]
rules
Don't you know that [A] he sang on the tail
[G] Bloody hell I'm on the [B] tail
[F] And traveling [D]
rules
Yeah Lord [A] and he sang on the tail
[G] Bloody hell I'm on his [A] tail
[F] And [D] traveling rules
[Dm] Oh yeah
[N]
[D] We're gonna play the blues for you right now.
We'll do a tribute to Robert Johnson.
God bless the man
[Em] Here so I gotta tell you this story my
My [F] grandpa was 90 97 years [Em] old.
You heard this song.
He said is it Chris?
I heard that song he wrote about that guy was born in 1911.
I was born in [D] 1910
[C] [Em] [D]
[C] [G] [D]
[G] [B]
[D] [C] [G]
[A] [Bm]
[D] I had a son [G]
from the day he was born back in 1911
[D] Ain't no way but no one's enough
[Bm] Someday he'll be [Dm] the one
[D]
[Dm]
[D] Well [A] he learned to play some guitar [C] from his friend boy [G] Willie Brown
[D] Noah Johnson [A] gave him a name
[G] You [D] went down to the crossroad
dealing with the [G] devil
[D] Robin Leroy's life
Will never [G] be the same
[F]
Everybody call [G] him
[F] Here [D] we go
Never [A] [G]
made it up just
[D]
[A]
[G] [Dm] [D] Traveling rules
[A] [C] [D]
Travel around the country
[C] [Bm] play the blues
[D] Like no one else had ever done
[Bm] [D] Well, they say love the ladies
You don't never stay [Bm] too [B] long
[D]
living his life
[A] [G]
Everybody call him
[F] Here [D] we go
Never [G]
[F] made it up
[G] Just [A] gonna rip you
out of there
[D] [A] And he sang on the tail
Bloody hell I'm on the [F] tail
And [D] traveling rules
[C] Traveling rules
[D]
[A] Traveling rules
[D]
[A] [G] [D]
[C] [Bm] [B] [D]
[Bm] [G] Traveling rules Oh yeah
[Dm] [F] [A] [F]
[D]
[G] [A]
[D]
[C] Traveling [G] rules
[D] Traveling rules
[C] [G] [D] Well just outside of Greenwood
[C] At the three-fourth [Bm] saloon
[F] [D]
He got too close to another [C] man's wife
[G] [D] When he drank the poison whiskey
[C] Still took [Bm] long [Dm] days
[D]
For the Delta King to [C] lose his life
[Bm] [F]
[G] Everybody call him
[F] King of the [D] Delta Blues
[G]
[F] Never made it up
Just [F] [A] gonna rip you
[D] [A] And he sang on the tail
[G] Bloody hell I'm on the [F] tail
And traveling [D]
rules
Don't you know that [A] he sang on the tail
[G] Bloody hell I'm on the [B] tail
[F] And traveling [D]
rules
Yeah Lord [A] and he sang on the tail
[G] Bloody hell I'm on his [A] tail
[F] And [D] traveling rules
[Dm] Oh yeah
[N]
Key:
D
G
A
F
C
D
G
A
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ We're gonna play the blues for you right now.
We'll do a tribute to Robert Johnson.
God bless the man _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ Here so I gotta tell you this story my
My [F] grandpa was 90 97 years [Em] old.
You heard this song.
He said is it Chris?
I heard that song he wrote about that guy was born in 1911.
I was born in [D] 1910 _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [B] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [D] _ _ I had a son [G] _
from the day he was born back in 1911 _
[D] Ain't no way but no one's enough
[Bm] Someday he'll be [Dm] the one
_ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] Well [A] he learned to play some guitar [C] from his friend boy [G] Willie Brown
_ [D] _ Noah Johnson [A] gave him a name
_ [G] You [D] went down to the crossroad
dealing with the [G] devil
_ [D] Robin Leroy's life
Will never [G] be the same
_ _ [F] _
Everybody call [G] him
[F] Here [D] we go
_ Never _ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _
made it up _ just
[D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ [D] Traveling rules _ _
[A] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [D]
Travel around the country
[C] _ [Bm] play the blues
[D] Like no one else had ever done
[Bm] _ [D] Well, they say love the ladies
You don't never stay [Bm] too [B] long
[D] _
living his life
[A] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ Everybody call him
[F] Here [D] we go
_ Never _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [F] _ made it up
[G] _ Just [A] gonna rip you
out of there
_ _ _ [D] _ [A] And he sang on the tail
Bloody hell I'm on the [F] tail
And [D] traveling rules
_ _ [C] Traveling rules
[D] _
_ _ _ [A] _ Traveling rules
[D] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Bm] _ [B] _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] [G] Traveling rules Oh yeah
[Dm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [A] _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [C] Traveling [G] rules
[D] Traveling rules
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ [D] Well just outside of Greenwood
[C] At the three-fourth [Bm] saloon
[F] _ [D]
He got too close to another [C] man's wife
[G] _ [D] When he drank the poison whiskey
_ [C] Still took [Bm] long [Dm] days
[D]
For the Delta King to [C] lose his life
[Bm] _ _ [F] _
_ [G] Everybody call him
_ [F] King of the [D] Delta Blues
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
[F] Never made it up
Just [F] [A] gonna rip you
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] And he sang on the tail
[G] Bloody hell I'm on the [F] tail
And traveling [D]
rules
_ _ _ _ Don't you know that [A] he sang on the tail
[G] Bloody hell I'm on the [B] tail
[F] And traveling [D]
rules
_ _ _ _ Yeah Lord [A] and he sang on the tail
[G] Bloody hell I'm on his [A] tail
[F] And [D] traveling rules
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] Oh yeah _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ We're gonna play the blues for you right now.
We'll do a tribute to Robert Johnson.
God bless the man _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ Here so I gotta tell you this story my
My [F] grandpa was 90 97 years [Em] old.
You heard this song.
He said is it Chris?
I heard that song he wrote about that guy was born in 1911.
I was born in [D] 1910 _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [B] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [D] _ _ I had a son [G] _
from the day he was born back in 1911 _
[D] Ain't no way but no one's enough
[Bm] Someday he'll be [Dm] the one
_ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] Well [A] he learned to play some guitar [C] from his friend boy [G] Willie Brown
_ [D] _ Noah Johnson [A] gave him a name
_ [G] You [D] went down to the crossroad
dealing with the [G] devil
_ [D] Robin Leroy's life
Will never [G] be the same
_ _ [F] _
Everybody call [G] him
[F] Here [D] we go
_ Never _ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _
made it up _ just
[D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ [D] Traveling rules _ _
[A] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [D]
Travel around the country
[C] _ [Bm] play the blues
[D] Like no one else had ever done
[Bm] _ [D] Well, they say love the ladies
You don't never stay [Bm] too [B] long
[D] _
living his life
[A] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ Everybody call him
[F] Here [D] we go
_ Never _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [F] _ made it up
[G] _ Just [A] gonna rip you
out of there
_ _ _ [D] _ [A] And he sang on the tail
Bloody hell I'm on the [F] tail
And [D] traveling rules
_ _ [C] Traveling rules
[D] _
_ _ _ [A] _ Traveling rules
[D] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Bm] _ [B] _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] [G] Traveling rules Oh yeah
[Dm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [A] _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [C] Traveling [G] rules
[D] Traveling rules
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ [D] Well just outside of Greenwood
[C] At the three-fourth [Bm] saloon
[F] _ [D]
He got too close to another [C] man's wife
[G] _ [D] When he drank the poison whiskey
_ [C] Still took [Bm] long [Dm] days
[D]
For the Delta King to [C] lose his life
[Bm] _ _ [F] _
_ [G] Everybody call him
_ [F] King of the [D] Delta Blues
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
[F] Never made it up
Just [F] [A] gonna rip you
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] And he sang on the tail
[G] Bloody hell I'm on the [F] tail
And traveling [D]
rules
_ _ _ _ Don't you know that [A] he sang on the tail
[G] Bloody hell I'm on the [B] tail
[F] And traveling [D]
rules
_ _ _ _ Yeah Lord [A] and he sang on the tail
[G] Bloody hell I'm on his [A] tail
[F] And [D] traveling rules
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] Oh yeah _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _