Chords for Lightnin' Hopkins - Black Cat Blues

[N] _ _ _ [A#] This is the black cat [G] told that white [A#] cat let's [G] go cross town and clown
The [C#] white cat told the black cat to [B] say his [A#] black self down and I just left [E] like [Em] this
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Black cat told the white [C#] cat stay where you can [E] be.
He say I believe you're trying to cheat [C] for me in there
_ _ _ Kept on going [E] across _ [C#m] town
_ _ _ What would I wouldn't [B] drink something at all?
Morgan [Em] Davis wine
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_ _ _ [B] _ _ [E] All right
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long time
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_ [D#m] Just go ahead on and drink [E] that Morgan Davis wine
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That [C] black cat got word, [A#m] you know, he got a beginning dance
[E] _ _ _ [C#m] The white cat told the black cat sit down.
He [C] look like he's got ants in your pants
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_ black cat he take [B] it a word and
_ And he [E] sit down and say give me a little bottle that _ Thunderbird _ _ _
both of them drinking wine
_ One drinking [D] Morgan Davis and [E] the other drinking Thunderbird.
[C#m] _ _ _ _ They got drunk to [F#] begin to stagger home together
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Black cat to the white cat.
They ain't we went one [A#] another he said [C#m] yeah
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Black cat told a [E] white cat.
I believe he's feeding a clown the white cat told the black cat
You better set your [A#m] black self [A] down because it ain't [F#] no time [D#m] for no clown
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_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [C] You know that with that white [B] cat
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_ Black cat told the [C#] white cat say, you know, we've been together white cats.
[C#m] Yeah _ _
He said don't make sense [C] for us to get mad at one [A] another.
He said no
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He [E] said but you doing something I really don't like he said what is he said just [D#m] because you the [E] black cat
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_ [E] _ _ [A] The black cat told a [G] white cat.
So I'm doing [E] it cause I'm in town _
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Since I had the biggest privy now, [C#] you got a privilege [A#] to set your white self down
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