Chords:
{t:Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie}
{artist:Blind Willie McTell}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnWxZtI3ONY Db so capo 1
{key: C}
{c: Thanks to Tapestes Ultimate Guitar and Steve Przybelinski }
[C] Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low [C7]
[F7] Wake up mama, turn your lamp down [C] low
[G7] Have you got the nerve to [F7] drive Papa McTell from your [C] door? [C7]
[C] My mother died and left me reckless, my daddy died and left me wild, wild, [C7] wild
[F7] Mother died and left me reckless, Daddy died and left me [C] wild, wild, wild
[G7] No, I'm not good lookin' [F7] but I'm some sweet woman's angel [C] child [C7]
[C] She's a mighty mean woman, to do me this a-way [C7]
[F7] She's a mighty mean woman, to do me this a-[C]way
[G7] When I leave this town, [F7] pretty mama, I'm going away to [C] stay [C7]
[C] I once loved a woman, better than any I'd ever seen [C7]
[F7] I once loved a woman, better than any I'd ever [C] seen
[G7] Treat me like I was a king and [F7] she was a dog-gone [C] queen [C7]
[C] Sister, tell your Brother, Brother tell your Auntie, now Auntie,
tell your Uncle, Uncle tell my Cousin, now Cousin tell my friend
[F7] Goin' up the country, Mama, don't you want to [C] go?
[G7] May take me a fair brown, [F7] may take one or two [C] more [C7]
[C] Big Eighty left Savannah, Lord, and did not stop
You ought to saw that colored fireman when he got them boiler hot
[F7] You can reach over in the corner, Mama, and hand me my travelin' [C] shoes
[G7] You know by that, [F7] I've got them Statesboro [C] blues [C7]
[C] Mama, Sister got 'em, Auntie got 'em
Brother got 'em, friends got 'em, I got 'em
[F7] Woke up this morning, we had them Statesboro [C] blues
[G7] I looked over in the corner, [F7] Grandma and Grandpa had 'em [C] too
