Match Box Blues Chords by Albert King

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[Eb] _ [Ebm] Now listen [Ab] y'all, this is the type of used to take place way down behind the Iron Curtain
on Sandy Lake.
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At a place they call the [Abm] Roadhouse.
_ [Gb] [Db] Up north they call it Half-Dollar Place.
_ _ [Abm] _ [Ab] But down there on Saturday night the junkies showing up drunk.
_ [Eb] _ I [Ab] was at the Roadhouse one night [Db] and in [Abm] walked a lady [Ab] with a well-dressed guy.
[Ebm] And he could really get her on that thing [B] to this [Ab] style of music right here.
_ [Ab] The young folks don't know nothing [B] about this.
[Gb] They [Ab] got to get hit for this.
_ [Abm] And way over in the [Db] corner was another well-dressed lady built up like a [Abm] Coca-Cola bottle and
she could get [Db] on down and [Ab] do it too.
_ [Bb] And every time he'd get out of the [Eb] dance he'd go over there and get the same lady.
[Db] _ And mama [Abm] said, [Db] I got to let [Ab] this broad know that that's my man.
[Ebm] And she went on over to the other side of the room to the violator and _ got her [B] half a man.
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Y'all call it Half [B]-Pint [Ab] of North End.
_ [Db] But you didn't have to have but 35 cents.
And mama picked her up with one [Ab] of those half [B] a man and she [Ab] came back out there and [B] she
downed [Bb] about half of that half a [Eb] man and got right out there on the floor.
She had some pretty [Db] nice hips on her too you know.
And she [Ab] got right on up there beside her man and that [Ebm] woman and started shaking them [Ab] big old hips.
She said, [Ab] oh, don't go.
Know your man for mine.
[B] She wasn't [Ab] driving either, buddy.
[B] Mama [Ab] was getting ready to start something [Db] up in that joint.
You hear what I said?
But the joint kept on jumping.
[Eb] After a [Ab] while, here come a man [B] from around [Ab] back out of nowhere and [Eb] he pulled up a shotgun pistol.
[Db] Didn't have no electric lights, nothing [Eb] but bottle lights [Ab] around the wall and he started
popping them out [Ebm] there.
_ [Ab] Yeah.
And the floor walker walked up to him and said, hey, buddy, you can't do that in here.
He said, no, I can't, huh. _
He didn't make it no better, no worse.
He turned around [Db] and let the floor walker, let the bouncer have one right between the eyes.
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[Ab] And everybody stood [B] still [Ab] for about two seconds, [Eb] one way in and one way out.
The house was up on the mound.
They called it on the mound.
[Ab] And everybody broke for that one door [Ebm] and they got [Ab] wedged up in the door and I went
right between them heads.
_ _ Look here.
I didn't want to run, [B] but I [Ab] just couldn't hold [Db] still no longer.
And I got a good start off that mound.
_ [Ab] [B] I had a [Ab] cemetery to go through and a bridge to [B] cross.
[Bb] I remember the cemetery [Eb] a little bit.
Don't remember the bridge, [Db] none.
_ _ [Abm] And I got tickled.
When you [Ab] get so scared, you get tickled, [Ebm] _ [Ab] you don't have to do nothing but [B] raise your feet up.
They'll take you right on where [Ab] you want to go.
Pretty soon I didn't hear that sound no more.
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_ _ [Ebm] _ _ [Ab] _ Dreamed that I was lucky, _ _ but I woke up cold in the [B] hand.
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_ _ _ _ [Db] Hey, I dreamed that I was lucky, darlin', but I woke up [Ab] cold in [B] the hand.
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I _ _ dreamed [Eb] I had you all by myself, but now [Db] I know you found another [Ab] man.
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_ _ _ Oh, that's why I wanna, _ _ wanna matchbox hold my [B] clothes.
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_ _ [B] _ [Ab] [Db] Hey, some kind of I wanna, _ darlin', wanna matchbox [Ab] hold my clothes.
You _ know [Bb] I [Eb] haven't got so many, _ [Db] _ but I got [Abm] so far to go.
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_ _ _ Oh, if you got a good woman, _ you better pin her to your [B] side.
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_ _ _ [Db] Hey, if you got a good lady, fella, _ you better pin her to your [B] side.
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_ _ [Ab] [Bb] Because [Eb] since you flagged my dream, buddy, _ [Db] I'm bound to let her [Ab] ride. _ _
_ [Ebm] _ _ [Ab] Oh, that's why I wanna, [Ab] _
_ wanna matchbox hold my clothes. _ _
_ _ [Db] Oh, some kind of I wanna, darlin', wanna matchbox hold my clothes.
[Ab] You _ _ know [Bb] I [Eb] haven't got so many, _
[Db] _ but I got so far [Ab] to go. _ _ _
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