Chords for Ray Wylie Hubbard - Mother Blues
Tempo:
169.35 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
Em
G
D
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[E] [Am]
[Em] [E]
I was a young man about 21 years old, y'all.
All I [Em] wanted was a stripper girlfriend and a gold-topped Les Paul.
If you can't have the things you wish for, you might get them.
There was [E] a nightclub in Dallas, [B] [E] it's called [Em] Mother Blues.
They swayed Lightning Hopkins, [D] played in [E] Freddie King, even paid some dues.
[Em] All the dealers and gamblers and young white [A] [Em] hipsters, they all made the scene.
The girl at the door who checked [A] IDs [E] was just 16.
[Em] [A] It was not [G] a place for law [E]-abiding citizens.
[Em] [E] Jackie Jones, he had him a habit, [D] [E] he just couldn't [G] stop.
[C#] Said, give me [D]
$500, [E] [D] I'll sell [E] you my Les Paul gold [A]-top.
[Em] I drove my daddy's car down to Ross Avenue and I sold it.
[E] I guess I should have told him, he alluded to the police, that someone stole it.
[G] [A] It was just [G] the first of many bad [E] decisions I was to make for the next 20 [Em] [A] years.
[G] Oh, but I had [E] me a guitar.
[Em]
[E] [A]
[G] [E] It's 2 a.m. and everybody's gone but the band, the [D] dealers and [Em] Jackie Jones.
Then the girls [A] from the [E] Landon [D] Strip Club [E] come over, they put their clothes [G] back on.
[E] So I'm at Mother Blues, I'm sitting on [Dm] an [E] amp, I'm playing Twist and Shout.
[A] And [E] this tall drinker water [D]-walking, little [Em] I, she might have to shoot her way out.
[A] She come up to me, she [G] said, you know anything good on that [E] guitar?
I didn't say nothing, I [A] just kept on playing.
She said, [G] have you ever heard this song [E] called Polk Salad Annie?
I just kept on [G] playing.
[A] She said, every [G] time I hear that song, me [E] insides feel like warm butter
and I [A] just want to take off my clothes and dance [G] around in my underwear.
[Em] I said, down in Louisiana, where the alligator grows some mean.
Whoa, that's all I [D] knew of it.
[Em] But it was enough.
So me and this dancer, we hit it off like a metaphor, like a metaphor for a hydrogen bomb.
We was enriched uranium, supercritical mass, we was a chain reaction.
It was love and lust, mostly lust, but a mutual attraction.
So there I was, boys, at 21 years [E] old.
I had it [G] all.
I [E] had a fine strip of [G] girlfriend [E] and a gold-topped Les Paul.
[A] Ah, the [G] future, oh, it [E] looked promising.
[A] Ah, but there were [G] dark clouds [E] on the horizon.
[Em]
She was a beautiful girl, but she liked to drink tequila.
Ah, and that ain't all.
I come home four or five times and ship all my Les Paul.
So we [D] broke up and [E] she went to Hollywood.
She married her an [Em] actor.
She got a job dancing on the Hudson Brothers TV show and modeling lipstick for Max [A] Factor.
Well, I'm [G] glad she'd done all right.
[E] I got over eventually.
[G] [A] I'm glad she'd done all [G] right.
Yes, I [E] ain't.
[Em] But now me, well, I never busted through [A] the [Em] gates into the big time as a rock and roll star.
For 40 years, I just carried around [E] an old gold-topped guitar.
[Em] But love [Dm] and fate [E] are mysterious things in [A] this funky [Em] old world.
It [E] was 23 years [A] ago I [E] ended up marrying that mother blues [Em] door [A] girl.
We had us [G] a boy, and [D] he [E] 19 years old now, and he playing [D] guitar.
[A] And he ended up [G] with my Les Paul gold [E]-top.
Now, I don't know if [A] my son going to [E] hang his life on a guitar or not,
but I'm very grateful for the time that I get to share the [D] [G] stage [E] with him.
I'm very grateful that I'm still writing these old songs and traveling [D] around and playing [Em] them
and people coming out to hear me play them.
And I'm very grateful for KUT for playing me every now and then.
And you know, [E] the days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations,
I have really good days.
[D] [E]
The one and only Ray Wiley Hubbard.
We would hope there's only one of me.
[Em] [E]
I was a young man about 21 years old, y'all.
All I [Em] wanted was a stripper girlfriend and a gold-topped Les Paul.
If you can't have the things you wish for, you might get them.
There was [E] a nightclub in Dallas, [B] [E] it's called [Em] Mother Blues.
They swayed Lightning Hopkins, [D] played in [E] Freddie King, even paid some dues.
[Em] All the dealers and gamblers and young white [A] [Em] hipsters, they all made the scene.
The girl at the door who checked [A] IDs [E] was just 16.
[Em] [A] It was not [G] a place for law [E]-abiding citizens.
[Em] [E] Jackie Jones, he had him a habit, [D] [E] he just couldn't [G] stop.
[C#] Said, give me [D]
$500, [E] [D] I'll sell [E] you my Les Paul gold [A]-top.
[Em] I drove my daddy's car down to Ross Avenue and I sold it.
[E] I guess I should have told him, he alluded to the police, that someone stole it.
[G] [A] It was just [G] the first of many bad [E] decisions I was to make for the next 20 [Em] [A] years.
[G] Oh, but I had [E] me a guitar.
[Em]
[E] [A]
[G] [E] It's 2 a.m. and everybody's gone but the band, the [D] dealers and [Em] Jackie Jones.
Then the girls [A] from the [E] Landon [D] Strip Club [E] come over, they put their clothes [G] back on.
[E] So I'm at Mother Blues, I'm sitting on [Dm] an [E] amp, I'm playing Twist and Shout.
[A] And [E] this tall drinker water [D]-walking, little [Em] I, she might have to shoot her way out.
[A] She come up to me, she [G] said, you know anything good on that [E] guitar?
I didn't say nothing, I [A] just kept on playing.
She said, [G] have you ever heard this song [E] called Polk Salad Annie?
I just kept on [G] playing.
[A] She said, every [G] time I hear that song, me [E] insides feel like warm butter
and I [A] just want to take off my clothes and dance [G] around in my underwear.
[Em] I said, down in Louisiana, where the alligator grows some mean.
Whoa, that's all I [D] knew of it.
[Em] But it was enough.
So me and this dancer, we hit it off like a metaphor, like a metaphor for a hydrogen bomb.
We was enriched uranium, supercritical mass, we was a chain reaction.
It was love and lust, mostly lust, but a mutual attraction.
So there I was, boys, at 21 years [E] old.
I had it [G] all.
I [E] had a fine strip of [G] girlfriend [E] and a gold-topped Les Paul.
[A] Ah, the [G] future, oh, it [E] looked promising.
[A] Ah, but there were [G] dark clouds [E] on the horizon.
[Em]
She was a beautiful girl, but she liked to drink tequila.
Ah, and that ain't all.
I come home four or five times and ship all my Les Paul.
So we [D] broke up and [E] she went to Hollywood.
She married her an [Em] actor.
She got a job dancing on the Hudson Brothers TV show and modeling lipstick for Max [A] Factor.
Well, I'm [G] glad she'd done all right.
[E] I got over eventually.
[G] [A] I'm glad she'd done all [G] right.
Yes, I [E] ain't.
[Em] But now me, well, I never busted through [A] the [Em] gates into the big time as a rock and roll star.
For 40 years, I just carried around [E] an old gold-topped guitar.
[Em] But love [Dm] and fate [E] are mysterious things in [A] this funky [Em] old world.
It [E] was 23 years [A] ago I [E] ended up marrying that mother blues [Em] door [A] girl.
We had us [G] a boy, and [D] he [E] 19 years old now, and he playing [D] guitar.
[A] And he ended up [G] with my Les Paul gold [E]-top.
Now, I don't know if [A] my son going to [E] hang his life on a guitar or not,
but I'm very grateful for the time that I get to share the [D] [G] stage [E] with him.
I'm very grateful that I'm still writing these old songs and traveling [D] around and playing [Em] them
and people coming out to hear me play them.
And I'm very grateful for KUT for playing me every now and then.
And you know, [E] the days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations,
I have really good days.
[D] [E]
The one and only Ray Wiley Hubbard.
We would hope there's only one of me.
Key:
E
A
Em
G
D
E
A
Em
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
[Em] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I was a young man about 21 years old, y'all.
All I [Em] wanted was a stripper girlfriend and a gold-topped Les Paul. _
If you can't have the things you wish for, _ _ you might get them. _ _
_ _ There was [E] a _ nightclub in Dallas, [B] _ _ [E] it's called [Em] Mother _ Blues.
_ They swayed Lightning Hopkins, [D] played in [E] Freddie King, even paid some dues.
[Em] _ All the dealers and gamblers and young white [A] [Em] hipsters, they all made the scene.
The girl at the door who checked [A] IDs [E] was just 16.
_ [Em] _ [A] _ It was not [G] a place for law [E]-abiding citizens. _
_ _ [Em] _ _ [E] Jackie Jones, he had him a habit, [D] _ _ [E] he just couldn't [G] stop.
_ [C#] Said, give me [D]
$500, [E] _ [D] I'll sell [E] you my Les Paul _ gold [A]-top.
_ [Em] I drove my daddy's car down to Ross Avenue and I sold it.
_ [E] I guess I should have told him, he alluded to the police, that someone stole it.
[G] _ _ [A] _ It was just [G] the first of many bad [E] decisions I was to make for the next 20 [Em] [A] years. _ _
[G] Oh, but I had [E] me a guitar. _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [E] It's 2 a.m. and _ everybody's gone but the band, the [D] dealers and [Em] Jackie Jones.
Then the girls [A] from the [E] Landon [D] Strip Club [E] come over, they put their clothes [G] back on.
[E] So I'm at Mother Blues, I'm sitting on [Dm] an [E] amp, I'm playing Twist and Shout.
[A] And [E] this tall drinker water [D]-walking, little [Em] I, she might have to shoot her way out.
[A] She come up to me, she [G] said, you know anything good on that [E] guitar?
_ I didn't say nothing, I [A] just kept on playing.
She said, [G] have you ever heard this song [E] called Polk Salad Annie?
I just kept on [G] playing.
_ [A] She said, every [G] time I hear that song, me [E] insides feel like warm butter
and I [A] just want to take off my clothes and dance [G] around in my underwear.
[Em] I said, down in Louisiana, _ _ where the alligator grows some mean.
Whoa, that's all I [D] knew of it.
[Em] _ But it was enough. _ _
So me and this dancer, we hit it off like a metaphor, _ _ _ like a metaphor for a hydrogen bomb. _ _ _
_ We was enriched uranium, supercritical mass, we was a chain reaction.
It was love and lust, _ mostly lust, but a mutual _ attraction.
_ So there I was, boys, at 21 years [E] old.
I had it [G] all.
I [E] had a fine strip of [G] girlfriend [E] and a gold-topped Les Paul.
[A] _ Ah, the [G] future, _ oh, it [E] looked promising. _ _ _
_ [A] Ah, but there were [G] dark clouds [E] on the horizon.
_ _ [Em] _
She was a beautiful girl, but she liked to drink tequila.
Ah, and that ain't all.
_ I come home four or five times and ship all my Les Paul.
So we [D] broke up and [E] she went to Hollywood.
_ She married her an [Em] actor.
She got a job dancing on the Hudson Brothers TV show and modeling lipstick for Max [A] Factor.
Well, I'm [G] glad she'd done all right.
[E] I got over eventually.
[G] [A] I'm glad she'd done all [G] right.
_ _ Yes, I [E] ain't.
_ _ _ _ [Em] But now me, well, I never busted through [A] the [Em] gates into the big time as a rock and roll star.
For 40 years, I just carried around [E] an old gold-topped guitar.
[Em] _ But love [Dm] and fate [E] are mysterious things in [A] this funky [Em] old world.
It [E] was _ 23 years [A] ago I [E] ended up marrying that mother blues [Em] door [A] girl.
We had us [G] a boy, and [D] he [E] 19 years old now, and he playing [D] guitar.
[A] And he ended up [G] with my Les Paul gold [E]-top.
Now, I don't know if [A] my son going to [E] hang his life on a guitar or not,
but I'm very grateful for the time that I get to share the [D] [G] stage [E] with him.
I'm very grateful that I'm still writing these old songs and traveling [D] around and playing [Em] them
and people coming out to hear me play them.
And I'm very grateful for KUT for playing me every now and then.
And you know, [E] the days that I keep my _ gratitude higher than my _ expectations,
_ I have really _ good _ days. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
The one and only Ray Wiley Hubbard.
We would hope there's only one of me. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I was a young man about 21 years old, y'all.
All I [Em] wanted was a stripper girlfriend and a gold-topped Les Paul. _
If you can't have the things you wish for, _ _ you might get them. _ _
_ _ There was [E] a _ nightclub in Dallas, [B] _ _ [E] it's called [Em] Mother _ Blues.
_ They swayed Lightning Hopkins, [D] played in [E] Freddie King, even paid some dues.
[Em] _ All the dealers and gamblers and young white [A] [Em] hipsters, they all made the scene.
The girl at the door who checked [A] IDs [E] was just 16.
_ [Em] _ [A] _ It was not [G] a place for law [E]-abiding citizens. _
_ _ [Em] _ _ [E] Jackie Jones, he had him a habit, [D] _ _ [E] he just couldn't [G] stop.
_ [C#] Said, give me [D]
$500, [E] _ [D] I'll sell [E] you my Les Paul _ gold [A]-top.
_ [Em] I drove my daddy's car down to Ross Avenue and I sold it.
_ [E] I guess I should have told him, he alluded to the police, that someone stole it.
[G] _ _ [A] _ It was just [G] the first of many bad [E] decisions I was to make for the next 20 [Em] [A] years. _ _
[G] Oh, but I had [E] me a guitar. _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [E] It's 2 a.m. and _ everybody's gone but the band, the [D] dealers and [Em] Jackie Jones.
Then the girls [A] from the [E] Landon [D] Strip Club [E] come over, they put their clothes [G] back on.
[E] So I'm at Mother Blues, I'm sitting on [Dm] an [E] amp, I'm playing Twist and Shout.
[A] And [E] this tall drinker water [D]-walking, little [Em] I, she might have to shoot her way out.
[A] She come up to me, she [G] said, you know anything good on that [E] guitar?
_ I didn't say nothing, I [A] just kept on playing.
She said, [G] have you ever heard this song [E] called Polk Salad Annie?
I just kept on [G] playing.
_ [A] She said, every [G] time I hear that song, me [E] insides feel like warm butter
and I [A] just want to take off my clothes and dance [G] around in my underwear.
[Em] I said, down in Louisiana, _ _ where the alligator grows some mean.
Whoa, that's all I [D] knew of it.
[Em] _ But it was enough. _ _
So me and this dancer, we hit it off like a metaphor, _ _ _ like a metaphor for a hydrogen bomb. _ _ _
_ We was enriched uranium, supercritical mass, we was a chain reaction.
It was love and lust, _ mostly lust, but a mutual _ attraction.
_ So there I was, boys, at 21 years [E] old.
I had it [G] all.
I [E] had a fine strip of [G] girlfriend [E] and a gold-topped Les Paul.
[A] _ Ah, the [G] future, _ oh, it [E] looked promising. _ _ _
_ [A] Ah, but there were [G] dark clouds [E] on the horizon.
_ _ [Em] _
She was a beautiful girl, but she liked to drink tequila.
Ah, and that ain't all.
_ I come home four or five times and ship all my Les Paul.
So we [D] broke up and [E] she went to Hollywood.
_ She married her an [Em] actor.
She got a job dancing on the Hudson Brothers TV show and modeling lipstick for Max [A] Factor.
Well, I'm [G] glad she'd done all right.
[E] I got over eventually.
[G] [A] I'm glad she'd done all [G] right.
_ _ Yes, I [E] ain't.
_ _ _ _ [Em] But now me, well, I never busted through [A] the [Em] gates into the big time as a rock and roll star.
For 40 years, I just carried around [E] an old gold-topped guitar.
[Em] _ But love [Dm] and fate [E] are mysterious things in [A] this funky [Em] old world.
It [E] was _ 23 years [A] ago I [E] ended up marrying that mother blues [Em] door [A] girl.
We had us [G] a boy, and [D] he [E] 19 years old now, and he playing [D] guitar.
[A] And he ended up [G] with my Les Paul gold [E]-top.
Now, I don't know if [A] my son going to [E] hang his life on a guitar or not,
but I'm very grateful for the time that I get to share the [D] [G] stage [E] with him.
I'm very grateful that I'm still writing these old songs and traveling [D] around and playing [Em] them
and people coming out to hear me play them.
And I'm very grateful for KUT for playing me every now and then.
And you know, [E] the days that I keep my _ gratitude higher than my _ expectations,
_ I have really _ good _ days. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
The one and only Ray Wiley Hubbard.
We would hope there's only one of me. _ _ _ _ _ _