Chords for Lead Belly - "Careless Love" [Official Audio]

[N] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[Db] You got the only [A] thing.
_ _ What [E] about Kerryl's Love?
Don't you think it's sung in [Bm] different ways?
_ Yeah, well, _ _ _
yeah, it's different ways to sing that.
I assure you, [Bb] the white people's version is love over love over Keryl's Love.
But Don [Eb] and Lou's Adam and Wee singing,
see what Keryl's Love have done.
Now to my ideas, [D] which I think is true,
London was the first name put out the record of Keryl's [Eb] Love,
but since then, there's been [Bm] a lot of records [Eb] made since that.
But he's the first [Bb] one that did because
_ [D] _
him and I used to sing it in the [B] United States,
and that was around _ 1904.
[E] Yeah, before D.C. Handy.
Yeah, boy.
And then [Bb] we used to do the St.
Louis Blues.
That was before D.C. Handy.
_ When I was a boy, yeah, yeah.
_ _ [Ebm] What, St.
Louis Blues?
[Bb] We used to do the St.
Louis _ [Db] song, you know, down in [Eb] Louisiana.
That was when I was [Gb] a boy.
And it wasn't [D] written, it's just a real song that's made up.
But [Ebm] anyhow, _ [Eb] when I come to New [Gb] York, you know,
we found out that [Cm] Debbie Stanton's the man who wrote the _ [C] music.
_ But that was _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] when I was a [Eb] boy, you know, and we used to sing that song.
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] Well, tell me, _ [Eb] when the way you and [Gb] Keryl_ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
Yes, the love.
_ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ Yeah, well, this [Ebm] is love.
_ _ _ _ _ _ And [Gb] they call it Kelley's love.
_ And that's, I mean, [C] my [Bb] estimation, which I tell people, and I think,
[Eb] _ _ [Dm] if you're loving somebody and you can't not [B] vouch for that love,
you can throw it in the East River, because it's no [Eb] good.
But when [Db] you love somebody and they love you,
you [Eb] can get them together, well, there ain't no [Bm] stone.
_ Real true [Ebm] love, but this is [Bb] Kelley's love, you don't throw it away, see.
[B]
And that's the way we do it, [E] you know.
_ Here it goes.
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
I'm just a girl saying to her boyfriend, _ _
And you see what [Bm] that Kelley's [E]
love have done. _ _ _ _ _
And you see what [B] that Kelley's love have done. _ _ _ _
_ You [E] see what [D] that Kelley's _ _ [A] _ love have done.
[Em] _ It made me love you, [Bm] _
I'm your [Em] good friend, I come.
[E] _ _
_ _ _ [Em] When I was wearing my [B] A _ [E]-Bundt solo.
That's what I'm talking about.
[Em] When I was wearing _ my [Bm] A-Bundt solo. _ _
_ _ _ When [E] I was wearing _ _ [D] my _ _ [A] A-Bundt [Em] solo.
_ I couldn't keep [E] you _ [Bm] _ away [Em] from my door.
[E] I should wear it high.
_ _ I'm wearing _ [Bm] my A-Bundt [Em] under my chin.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ I'm wearing _ [B] my A-Bundt under my chin.
_ _ _ _ _ I'm [E]
wearing my [D] A-Bundt [E] locked [A] up under [Em] my chin.
_ You can close [Bm] my door, but [E] you won't come in.
_ _ _ _ And you see _ [Bm] what that [Em] Kelley's love will do.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ And you see what that [Bm] [Gb] Kelley's love will [B] do.
_ _ _ _ _ [E] You see _ [D] what that _ Kelley's [A] _ _
[E] love will do.
I think it's Miss P.
Joe, _ [Bm] I'm your papa too.
[Em] You _ _ know I love [B] my mama [Em] and my papa too.
[E] _ _ _ _ [Em] You know I love [Bm] _ my mama and my papa too. _
[B] _ _ _ _ I [E] love my [D] mama _ [E] and I [A] love my [Em] papa too.
But I left them [B] both _ just to [Em] go along with you.
[E] Yes, you did.
Yeah. _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [E] _ Uh-huh.
_ _ Yeah. _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Yeah.
_ _ _ _ [Dbm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Goodbye.
_ _ [B] Goodbye.
[Em] Baby, goodbye.
_ [E] _ _ _ _
_ Goodbye.
_ _ [B] Goodbye, _ baby, goodbye.
She don't want to see him no more. _
[E] _ Goodbye, _ _ goodbye.
[A] If I never see you no [E] more.
Oh, you do me.
[Bm] _ _ [E] Weep from your dew.
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
That's it.
That's Kelley's love.
[B] That's a love [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ brother.
[Eb] He [D] couldn't tell me nothing [Db] because me and he was in the [B] same field and about the same age.
Same age.
Yeah, and I was playing.
And so when I first met Blind, I [Db] was.
_ But it's an old song.
Yeah, it's an old time song.
[Eb] It's an old [B] one you first heard it.
Well, it's, yeah, [Bb] something like that.
Yeah, it's pretty old.
[Db] _ _ It's an old song [Bb] made up.
It's about [B] _ women.
And [Db] it's something [B] like dollhouse.
You know, people make up words [Bb] around the dollhouse.
Yeah.
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ Because they sure have.
_ I've always wondered.
I never quite believed the claim that it's a modern pregnancy song.
Oh, no. _ _ _ _ _