Chords for Statesboro Blues - Old Style On 12 String - Piedmont Blues - Edward Phillips - Pre War Blues

[D] _ _ _ So today I'm gonna do a Piedmont [Dm] blues song called the Statesboro [G] Blues by a blind Willie McTell [D] who was out of Thompson, Georgia
This was a big hit from the Allman Brothers.
I'm gonna do it on this 12th string just like he did
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_ _ _ _ _ Wake up mama turn your lamp down low _
[F#] _ [C#m] _ _ _ [F#] _ [C#] _ _ _
_ [F#] _ Wake up mama turn [C#m] your lamp down low
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_ [G#] Well have you got the nerve to [C#] drive [G#m] up a man till the [C#] Lord _ knows _ _
_ _ Mother died and left me a wreckedness, but daddy died and left me a _ wild, wild, wild
[B] _ _ _ [F#] Mother _ died [C#m] and left me a wreckedness, but [F#] daddy died and left me [C#] a wild, wild, _ wild
[G#] Well I ain't good [C#] lookin' but I'll [E] show some sweet little [C#] girl's cow
_ _ _ _ _ She's a mighty mean woman, but you are mean in a [C#m] way
_ [F#] _ _ [C#m] Mighty [F#] _ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ [C#m] mean woman, but you are mean in a way _ _
_ _ [C#] Well [G#] when I [F#] leave town I'm [B] [G#] going [E] to [C#] reach the state _ _
_ _ _ I once loved a woman better than I'd ever [C#m] [C#] seen _
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[A#] Once [C#m] loved a woman better than I'd ever seen
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[G#] Well she treated me like a king [E] and she was a [C#] doggone queen _ _ _ _
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_ Well sister tell your brother, brother tell your auntie, auntie tell your uncle now
Tell my friend [F#] well I'm going off the country, _ [C#m] baby don't you wanna go
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My [G#] take a bad man [C#] and [G#m] my take one of [C#] you old
_ They _ _ gave you less than a man and all that didn't stop
You should have seen that fireman when he got the boiler hot [F#] now
Reach over [C#m] in the corner, [F#] gave me my trapping [C#m] shoes
[F#] _ [C#] _ _ _
[G#] Well oh my that [C#] I [G#m] got them [E] space [C#] buttons _ _ _ _ _
_ Mama sister got them, auntie got them
Brother got them, friends got them, I got them
[F#] Woke up [A#] this morning [F#] and had [C#m] the state's first news
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[G#] Well I look over in the corner [E] and grandma and grandpa [C#] had them too _ _ _ _ _
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