Chords for Randy Newman & Paul Simon - The Blues

He's gonna tell you about his [Em] dear old mother,
[G] earned up in a factory [C] in Springfield, Mass.
_ [B] He's gonna tell you [Am] about his baby [C] brother,
[F] hustling [G] down the city [C] streets,
[Bm] selling his ass for a [D] dollar _ [G] bank. _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [Bm] He's gonna tell you about his [Em] Uncle Nettie,
locked [G] up in a [C] prison out in Oregon.
_ _ [Bm] He's gonna tell you about his [C] best friend, Eddie,
[G] killed in a bar [C] fight with the _ [G] tambourines and [Am] the [D] sailor.
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He's [C] got the blues, [Bm] _ [Am] this boy.
[C] _
[F] He's got the blues.
You [G] can hear it in his music.
[C] He's got the blues, [Am] this boy.
[Em] _
[F] He's got the blues.
You can [G] hear it, you can hear [Am] it.
When I was nine years old,
_ my daddy ran away
[C] with the [G] woman he met on the [C] [Bm] train.
Oh, _ [Am] his little boy ran to the [Am] room
[C] where his piano [D] lay in wait for him.
_ _ [C] He played and he played.
[G] _ _ He played and [C] he played.
He played and he played.
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_ _ _ _ He's [C] got the blues, _ this boy.
_ He's got the blues.
_ [G] You can hear it, you can [C] hear it.
He's got the [Bm] blues, [Am] this boy.
[C] _ He's got the blues.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] A year ago, I [E] met a girl.
I thought we'd hit a massive groove,
[C] but you don't hear it.
_ [G] And all we'd hit [C] was the [Bm] blues.
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] He's got the blues, _ [Am] this boy.
[C] _ [F] He's got the blues.
[G] You can hear it in his music.
[C] He's got the [B] blues, [Am] this boy.
[C] _ _ [F] He's really got the blues.
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