Chords for Will Shade Better Leave That Stuff Alone (1928)

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_ _ _ _ _ _ People across the water, [C] they are crying for meat and bread.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] People across the water, they are crying for meat and bread.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] And the women down on Beale Street, crying for that old can of meat [C] every day. _ _ _ _ _ _
I give my woman a dollar to get herself something to eat.
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I [F] give my woman a dollar to get herself something to eat.
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She [G] spent a dime for an egg bone and a ninety cents for that old [C] can of meat. _ _ _ _ _
_ Every woman says she don't drink corn liquor.
Don't think she's nice and sweet.
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_ [Bb] Every [F] woman says she don't drink corn liquor.
Don't think she's [C] nice and sweet. _ _ _
_ _ [G] And she don't drink that old corn liquor.
Bet me a bottom dollar she drinks [C] that old can of meat. _ _ _
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_ _ Now just look what a difference a little money can buy. _ _ _
_ _ Now [F] just look what a difference a little money [C] can buy. _ _ _
_ _ Before a [G] woman spent fifty cents for corn liquor, she'll buy a dime box of can of [C] meat on a fly. _ _
_ _ Can of meat is just like morphine.
It crawls all through your bone.
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_ _ [F] Can of meat is just like morphine.
It crawls all through your bone.
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_ And if [G] you keep on using can of meat, my boy, you'll soon be in a bleak.
You just can't [C] leave it alone. _ _ _
_ When you catch a woman begging niggers and dimes, all up and down the street. _ _ _ _
_ [F] Lord, when you catch a woman begging niggers and dimes, [A]
all up [C] and down the street. _ _ _ _ _
She's only [G] hustling them people to get that stuff you call that [C] old can of meat. _ _ _ _ _
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