Chords for Tab Benoit - Monk's Blues

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[B] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ Let me [G] tell you people, let me [D] tell you, oh [A] something happened [G] to me.
[D] Something happened to me.
Yeah, it was a long [C] time ago now.
Long [Am] time [C] ago.
When she walked out the door.
_ _ Walked out that door.
My baby [G] left me.
[E] Oh, she [D] left me.
In the back door.
_ [Am] And I cried like [Gm] a baby child.
[G] Oh yes I did.
[C] Yes I did.
_ [G] _ Oh, [D] I said now. _
I went [Gm] down the street to the gypsy [Em] woman.
[G] Oh, to the gypsy [Em] woman.
And I [G] asked her, could you do for me.
[D] _ [Db] Oh, the secret she gave me.
And I [C] went to the gypsy woman.
[E] Oh, [C] gypsy woman.
Oh, the secret she pulled me through.
[A] Secret [G] pulled me through.
She said, my son.
Oh, my son.
[Bm]
I can't [D] help you now. [A] Oh, no.
_ [D] Because you don't have [G] nothing but the blues.
[Bm] Nothing but [C] the blues.
Oh, yes you do.
[G] Oh, yes.
And I want to say [D] now. _
When [G] she left me.
_ [B] She left me, oh.
I sat down on my [D] knees.
Sat down [Eb] on my knees.
And I [C] begged her, baby, please.
[Gm] I'm begging you, baby.
Won't you come [C] back to me.
[Gm] Oh, come on.
[C] She said, I'm [G] sorry, baby.
_ Yes, I'm sorry, baby.
[D] Time.
_ [Am] _ _ _ I won't be [G] back home.
_ [G] Oh, yeah.
[Db] Oh, yeah.
So I [Gm] went to walk in your.
_ [D] Oh, go ahead and walk in her.
I went to [Dm] walk with the blues. _ _ _ _
Because midnight was creeping on me, baby.
_ Midnight.
And I didn't [C] know what to do.
_ [Gm] Didn't know what to [A] do.
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_ [G] _ _ Oh, now [D] let me tell you.
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_ [Gm] _ I went down to [D] the juke joint.
[E] Oh, [Gm] it's a juke joint, yeah.
Where my baby [D] used to hang.
[Am] Baby used to go there.
Say people was [C] talking.
[F] Oh, yeah, they was [Gm] talking.
All over [G] town.
All over town. You see.
_ _ [Em] _ Oh, [C] yeah, the little girl [D] put him down.
Put [Gb] him down.
So [Gb] I start walking [G] y'all.
Oh, [C] yeah.
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Start [G] walking down the railroad track.
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[G] You know.
_ _ _ [B] [D] I was trying [Em] to turn the [G] freight train back.
Oh, turn [D] it back now.
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I'm so [C] broken hearted.
_ Yeah, broken hearted.
I didn't know what to [Bb] do.
Didn't [G] know what to do.
Let me tell you what I want you to do for me.
[E] Oh, [D] tell me, mama.
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Oh, [D] yeah, you see that woman.
_ That woman.
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Try to [G] bring her home to me.
[Bm] Bring [C] her home.
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Oh, [G] yeah, now.
Oh, yeah.
_ [D] _ Hey, yeah.
Oh, the sunlight come shining.
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_ [G] _ Oh, the sunlight [Dm] come shining on me.
Sunlight [C] shining through.
Yeah, it's [Am] on me.
But [C] I just want to tell y'all.
Oh, [Bb] tell me.
No, I just couldn't sleep at [A] night.
Couldn't [Gm] sleep at night, [G] no.
Because when she left [Dm] me all alone.
All alone.
All [A] I could do is weep and [G] moan.
Weep and [C] moan.
Oh, yeah, forget.
[Gm] Oh, yeah, weep and moan.
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Let [Gm] me tell you.
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[G] If you get a good woman.
If you get a good [D] woman.
Oh, you better [C] treat her so [Cm] kind.
Better [C] treat her so kind.
Because if [C] she ever leave you.
Oh, if she [F] leave you.
You might [Gm] lose your mind.
[E] Oh, [G] yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I know [D] y'all.
_ Oh, yeah.
_ [Gm] I know now.
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[G] _ _ _ _ Oh, yeah. _
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