Chords for Ray Wylie Hubbard "Mother Blue's"

_ _ _ _ _ I've got some people from all over the world here in different areas, so we'll just kind
of [E] explain a little bit about who I am maybe. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [E] _ _
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And I was 21 years old, y'all. _ _
All I wanted was a stripper girlfriend and a bowl top of that far.
_ _ _ _ _ Be careful of the things you wish for.
[D] _ _ [E] You might get them.
_ [A] _ There was a _
[E] nightclub in Dallas.
[D] _ _ [E] It's called Mother Blue.
[D] _ _ [E] Well, I named Hopkins played in Freddie King even [A] paid some dues.
[D] Now [A] the [Em] dealers and gamblers and young white [A] hipsters, they all [E] made the same.
[D] _ [A] The girl at the door who checked IDs [E] was _ just [D] 16.
_ _ [A] _ _
It was [G] not a place for law [E] abiding citizens.
_ _ _ [D] _ Jackie [Am] Jones, he had him a habit.
[D] _ _ [A] He just couldn't stop.
_ [D] _ [A] He gave me $500 and I say, unless Paul Gold, _ [D] I [A] drove my daddy's car down to Ross Avenue
and I sold it.
_ I guess I should have told him and [D] alluded [A] to the police.
Someone stole it. _ _ _
It was just [G] the first of many bad [D] [E] decisions I was to make for the next 40 _ [G] _ [A] years.
Ah, [Gm] but I _ had me [E] a _ guitar. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [Em] _ _ [E] _
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_ [D] _ [Em] Well, I tell you what, you people being here looking at you and looking at [E] each and every
one of you, I know that you understand that the real nightlife begins _ _ after the clubs
close, what they call after hours.
_ So there I was 21 years old and I had me this guitar and there was this club called Mother
Blues and I'd go over there and hang out.
_ And this is what happened one [D] night.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ It's 2 a.m. and _ everybody's gone but the band, the dealers and Jackie Jones and the girls
from the Landon Strip [E] Club come over after they put their clothes back [A] on.
So I'm at my blues and [E] I'm sitting on an amp.
I'm playing Twist and [A] Shout and [E] this tall drink of water [Em] walk in, look like she might
have [E] to shoot her way out.
[D] _ [A] _ _ She come up to [G] me and says, you know anything [D] good on that [E] guitar?
I didn't say nothing, I just kept on playing.
[D] _ _ [A] She said, you ever heard [G] this song called Polk [A] Sally, [E] Danny? _ _ _ _ _
[D] She [A] said, every time I hear [G] that song, [Em] my insides feel like warm butter and I just want
[A] to take off my clothes and dance around in [Gm] my underwear. _
[D] I said, [E] down in Louisiana _ [A] _
where [E] the alligator grows from [D] Maine.
Yeah, [E] _ [A] I know I'm not too proud of myself.
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [E] So we [A] hit it off, [D] me and [E] this dancer, we did.
We hit it off _ like a _ _ metaphor, _ _ _ _ like a metaphor for a hydrogen bomb.
[Em] _
We was [E] in rich uranium, _ supercritical [D] mass.
We [E] was a chain [D] reaction.
It was [E] a love and lust time, mostly [A] lust but [E] a [A] mutual _ attraction.
_ So there I was boys at 21 years [E] old, I had it [D] all.
I had [E] me a fine [A] strip of girlfriend and [E] a go-topless paw.
[D] I [A] had a future.
[G] _ _
[D] It [E] looked promising, _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ but there were [G] _
dark clouds [E] on the horizon.
_ _ _ [D] _
She [E] was a beautiful girl, but she liked to [D] drink tequila [E] and take two and all.
[A] _
_ [E] And I come home four or five times, [A] she'd [E] been drunk and she called me Les [A] Paul.
_ [E] So we broke up and she went to [D] Hollywood.
_ [E] _ She married an [D] actor.
She [E] got a job dancing [A] on the [E] Hudson Brothers [A] TV [E] show in modern lipstick for Max Factor.
[A] _ _ _ _ I'm [G] glad she's doing all right, I [D] really [E] am.
I got over and I'm glad she kind of got things [A] together.
_ _ Like I [G] say, I'm glad [A] she done [E] all right. _ _ _ _
[D] Well [Em] now me, _ I never busted through the gates into the big time as a rock and roll star.
[D] _ _ [E] For 40 years, I just _ [A] carried around [E] an old go [Em]-top guitar.
_ [A] [E] But love and fate are mysterious [A] [E] things in _ this funky old world.
[D] You [E] see, it was 20 years ago in February, [G] _ _ [E] I married that mother blues door girl.
[A] _ _ _ We [G] had us a boy and he's [E] 17 years old now and he's playing guitar.
[D] Kind of the reason [A] I wrote this song is, _ [G] _
you know, [D] I don't know if [E] he's going to hang his life on a guitar or not.
You know, he plays guitar.
He's my full time guitar player when he's not in school or he gets grounded.
[A] _ _ _ _
The reason I wrote this song was about six, seven months [E] ago, Tony Joe White called me up.
He said, Ray, I hear your boy playing guitar on your new record.
That him playing the lead guitar on Wast'n'est and Pots and Pants?
And I said, yes, it is.
And he said, wasn't that him playing on the old guitar on that other record that you had before that?
And I said, yes, [A] it is.
That him playing [E] guitar on the song Wast'n'est?
I said, yeah, that's him playing guitar.
And he said, well, you tell that [A] boy that he playing the bonafide [E] blues in the rock and roll truth.
And that made me feel [D] good.
It really [E] did.
And [A] _ _ [E] _ _
[A] _ I'm very grateful for that. _
Very grateful for that.
I'm very grateful you people [E] coming out here today.
And I'm very honored and grateful to share the stage with [A] Rick Richards right there.
I tell you what, just laying it down. _
_ _ [E] _ _ You know, here I am in this old cat, but I'm very, like I say, I'm very grateful I can write these old songs and run around the world and play them and have a pretty good time.
And I've got some good things going on [A] right now.
So [E] I'm very grateful.
And the days _ that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, _ _ I have really good days.
_ _ [G] Good day.
Thank you very much, Mr.
Rick Richards. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Great day. _ _
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