Statesboro Blues Chords by Blind Willie McTell

[Start]

[Verse]
Db                                     
■  Wake up mama turn your lamp down low
Abm Gb           Ebm  Gb        Db      
■   Wake up mama turn your lamp down low
                 Db                                       
Have you got the nerve to drive Papa McTell from your door
   Db                              
My mother died and left me reckless
   Db                                   
My daddy died and left me wild wild wild
                Db              
Mother died and left me reckless
                       Db            
Daddy died and left me wild wild wild
           Db          
No I'm not good lookin'
                             Db   
I'm some sweet woman's Angel child
Db                                            
You're a mighty mean woman to do me this a way
Ebm                                      Db   
You're a mighty mean woman to do me this a way
Db                                                       
When I leave this town pretty mama I'm going away to stay
                                           Db       
While I loved a woman better than even I'd ever seen
Ebm          Gb                           Db       
I once loved a woman better than even I'd ever seen
Db                                                    
Treat me like I was a king and she was a doggone queen
       Db                                            
Sister tell your brother brother tell your auntie now
                                                               Gb    
Auntie tell your uncle uncle tell my cousin now cousin tell my friend
                                         Db   
Goin' up the country mama don't you want to go
Db                                                  
May take me a fair brown may take me one or two more
Db                                            
Big Eighty left Savannah Lord and did not stop
                                      Db                         
You ought to saw that colored fireman when he got that boiler hot
                      Gb                                       Db   
You can reach over in the corner mama and hand me my travelin' shoes
         Db                                    
You know by that I've got them Statesboro blues


[Chorus]
     Db                           
Mama sister got 'em auntie got 'em
                           Db           
Brother got 'em friend got 'em I got 'em
                     Gb          Db              
Woke up this morning we had them Statesboro blues
                                                            Ab7 Ab Db
I looked over in the corner grandpa and grandma had 'em too ■   ■  ■ 


[End]