Chords for Mississippi Fred McDowell-Jesus On The Mainline

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That's the blues, y'all.
_ _ _ I don't play no rock and roll. _ _ _ _ _
I'll tell you what I want y'all
to do.
_ That makes me feel so much better.
You know, I _ don't go for no expert guitar
player, _ _ and I don't even try to outplay nobody.
I got my own way of playing, and I got my
own—see, I play by feeling.
You know, some people, they don't ever feel nothing until
they lose somebody in their family.
_ And they say, I'm so sorry, I did all I could when
I ain't done nothing, you understand?
_ _ So y'all rock with us just a little while tonight,
because I come here to play for y'all.
And I'm playing with understanding.
I play a lot
of stuff.
I play blues, and I play specials too.
_ _ But I play blues this way.
It's what
I know.
But when I'm playing a special song, I'm playing from my heart, you understand?
Of course, I feel both of them.
But you know, a special song is close to me in the blues,
dude.
_ _ Sometime. _ _
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Sometime I sit on it, I wonder, _ _ _ _ _ baby, why don't you like me?
I wonder, baby,
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_ _ [E] why don't you like me?
Lord, I sit on it, I wonder, baby, _ _ _ _ why _ don't you like me?
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_ _ [E] _ _ If I've
been a bad fella, baby, you know I [G] didn't mean [E] to be.
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_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ Everybody crying mercy, _ _ baby,
tell me what you mercy [Em] mean. _ _ _ _ _
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Lord, everybody crying mercy, _ _ _ _ _ baby, tell me what you mercy
mean.
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If it [Bb] means [E] any good, baby, [A] Lord, [E] have [G] mercy [E] on me.
_ _ [Em] I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [E] got a letter from hot spring, _ _
_ baby.
I tell you how to read.
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_ _ I got a letter from hot spring, baby.
_ _ _ _ I tell you how to read.
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Lord, it come in once for you.
Shut [E] up, girl, it's dead.
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I [E] got a free train, baby. _
You know
I tried to be my way.
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_ [E] got a free train, baby. _ _
_ You know I tried to be my [Em] way. _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ Lord,
I'm rocks and gravel, blue roll in my face.
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_ _ _ _ _ I had [E] to conduct a baby.
_ Please let me ride
it blind.
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Lord, I had to conduct a _ _ _ baby.
Let me ride it blind.
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_ _ _ [E] _ Lord, it's sugar, it's a
boy.
You know that [Bb] spring [E] ain't none of mine. _
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_ [E] _ Thank you.
Thank you so much.