Song Name: | Blues around my bed | By: | Spencer Williams |
Posted By: | harmusman | Difficulty: | Any |
Key: | Eb | Genre: | Blues |
Harp Type: | Chromatic | ||
Created: | 2013-01-16 06:21:24 | Modified: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
Song: | Blues around my bed...................... Key Eb Words & music by Spencer Williams 1943 (moderate blues)
I woke up this morn-in’--/-- / -5< -5< -5< -5< 5< -3</~~~~/ found my lov-in’ man had/fled did-n’t/ -3< 3< -3< 3< -3< 3</-1< -1< 2< / say good-bye--/that is why I sit and/ 3 -3< -3<~~/-3< -3< 4 -3< 4< 4 / sigh--/-- /left with-out a warn-in--/-- / -3<~~~/~~ /-5< -5< -5< -5< 4< -3<~~/~~ / now my hap-pi-ness is/dead and I/ -3< 3< -3< 3< -3< 3< -1< -1< 2< / shake with fright--/with the com-in of the/ 3 3 3~~~~ / 3 2< 3 2< 4< 4 / night---/--- //on my lone-ly pil-low/ -3<~~~~~~~ // 3 -3< 4 3 -3< 4 / heav-y lies my head’cause/ 3< -3< -5 -3< 4 -3< / my man’s gone and left me with the/ -5< -5< -5< -5< 4 -3< 3 -1< / blues a-roun’ my bed cry-in/law-dy law-dy/ 3 -3< 3 -1< 2< -1< 2</-3< 3< -2< -1< / I wish that I was dead-/----/- / -3< -3< 3< -2< -1< -1<~~/~~~~/~ / Deep shad-ows taunt me/ -5 -5 -3< 4 -3< / got the blues a-roun’ my bed-/----/- / -5< -5< -5< 4 -3< 4 3~~/~~~~/~ / I’m a weep-in’ wil-low/man-y tears I’ve shed since/ 3 -3< 4 3 -3< 4 /3< -3< -5 -3< 4 -3< / My man went and left me with the/ -5< -5< -5< -5< 5< -3< 3 -2</ Blues a-roun’ my bed sigh-in’/mer-cy mer-cy/ 3 -3< 3 -1< 2< -1< 2< /-3< -3 -2< -1< Be - cause I’m so a- fraid/----/- / -3< -3< 3< -2< -1< -1</~~~~~/~ /
when mem-‘ries haunt me/ -5 -5 -3< 4 -3< / with those blues a-roun my bed----/- //: -5< 4 -5< 4 -6< 6< -6<~~~~/~ //:
Instrumental -3< -3< 3< 3/-5< -5< -5 4/-3< -3< 3< 3/ 2< 2< -1< 1</1 -1< 2< -1< -2< -1< 2</ 1 -1< 2< -1< -2< -1< 2</ 1 -1< 2< -1< -2< -1< 2< -1</~~~~/~~~ / -5 -3< 4 -3< 4/-5< 4 -3< 4 -1</~~~~/ [1st -3< -3< -3<]:// Repeat all instrumental and replace 1st end With this end [2nd 3 3< -3 -3< //]
boat’s way up the riv-er/and it’s com-in’ down/ 3 -3< 4 3 -3< 4 / 3< -3< -5 -3< 4 / I quake and quiv-er ‘cause it’s/ -5< -5< -5< 5< -3< 3< -1< Al-a-ba-ma boun’ tak- in my /man a- way to / 3 -3< 3 -1< 2< -1< -1< -1</-3< 3< -2< -1</ Stay that’s what the Cap-‘um said/----/ -3< 3< -3< 3< -3< 3< 3~/~~~~/ --leav-in’ those/ ~~ -3< -3< -3< nev-er sleep-in’ ev-er creep-in’/ -5 -3> 4 -3< -5 -3< 4 -3< blues a-roun’ my bed/----/--- / -5< 4 -3< 4 -1</~~~~~~~~ blues a-roun’ my/bed---/----/----// -3< -3<-6< -6(-6)-5<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |