Bessie Smith
Transposer

Down Hearted Blues


Lovie Austin Alberta Hunter


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Song : C
Intro :
C A7 D7 Dm7 G7
C A7
Gee but it's hard to love someone
D7 G7 C
And that someone don't love you
A7
I'm so disgusted heartbroken too
D7 G7
Cause I've got those down hearted blues

C F
Once I was crazy about a man
E7
he mistreated me all the time
D7
But the next man I get
G7 C D7 G7
has got to promise me to be mine, all mine!

C F C
Trouble trouble I've had it all my days
F C
Trouble trouble I've had it all my days
G7
And it seems that trouble
C
Is going to follow me to my grave

F C
I never loved but three men in my life
F C
I never loved but three men in my life
G7
My father, my brother,
C G7
The man that wrecked my life
C
It may be a week,
F F7 C
it may be a month or two,
F
It may be a week,
F7 C
it may be a month or two,
G7
But the day you quit me, honey,
C F C
it's comin' home to you.
C
I got the world in a jug,
F C
the stopper's in my hand,
F
I got the world in a jug,
C
the stopper's in my hand,
G7
I'm gonna hold it until you
C G7 C
meet some of my demands.

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