Sporting Life Blues Chords by Svend Erik Nørregaard, Brownie Mcghee

[F] _ [Bb] _ [F] _ [C] _ [F] _ [Bb] _ [F] _ [Fm] _
_ [C] _ _ [F] I'm tired [Fm] of running [F] around
_ [Eb] [Bb] Think I will marry and [Db] settle down
_ [Fm] This old sporting life.
[C] It is a [F] mean [Gm] life [C] [Fm] and it's killing me. _
_ [B] _ [C] _ [F] _ [C] I [G] got a [Fm] letter
From [F] my home _ [Bb] all of my schoolmates.
They are dead and gone
_ [F] It'll make you worry
_ [C] It'll make you wonder
[G] _ [Fm] About days to come.
[Bb] _ _ [Fm] _ [Abm] _ [E] _ [Fm] My mother used
[G] To [Fm] talk to me.
[F] _ [Bb] I was young and foolish
_ [Db] Brownie could [G] not see
[Db] _ [F] Now I have no mother
[Fm] _ [C] My sisters [F] and my [Gm] brothers
[C] They [F] don't care for me
[Bb] _ _ [F] _ [C] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [Ab] _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ [Gm] _ _
_ [F] _ [Abm] _ [Gm] _ [Db] _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ [E] _ [Eb] _ [F] _ [G] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Bbm] _ [Gm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [C] _ [Bb] _ [F] _ [Bb] _ [G] _ [Cm] _
[F] _ [Abm] _ [E] _ [Fm] Mother used to fall
On her knees
[F] These _ [Bb] are the words mother
She [G] used to say
_ [F] She would say Brownie
[G]
[C] Whoa, [Abm] my [E] son
[F] Please change your way
[Bb] _
[F] Now [C] _ _ [F] I'm going
To change my way
[Bb] I'm growing older
each [Db] and every day
[G] When [F] I was young and foolish [Bb] [Fm] I
[C] Was so easy
[Bb] _ [F] easy let us pray
_ [G] _
[F] _ [C] _ _ [Fm] I was a gambler and a cheater too
[F] _ [Bb] Now it's come my
time [G] to lose
[F] This old sporting life
_ [C]
Got the [Abm] best hand
[C] What [F] can I do?
I want to tell y'all something
[Abm] [E] There [Fm] ain't but one [F] thing
Brownie done wrong.
I'll [Bb] live that old sporting _
Life too long
[Db] _ [F] Friends, it's no good
[Bb]
[C] Please [Abm] believe [Gm] me
[F] Please leave it alone
[Bb] _ [Bbm] _ _ [F] _ [C] _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
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