Catfish Blues (4th pos)

CATFISH BLUES 4th pos
By: Muddy Waters
B.B. King, Taj Majhal, Jimi Hendrix
Key: E
Fast Jump Blues
G harp

E
 8   8  9   7     8    7    -6
Well I lay down, down last night
 8    8   9   -10 8   -8  8
Well, I tried to take my rest
8   9     -10  10  9    9 8
No-tion struck me last night
 -8   -6     6    -6
Babe I’ll b’lieve I’ll 
 6   5  6 -6   4    5
Take a stroll out  west,
 6   5  6 -6  4   -3
Take a stroll out west


Well I wish I was a catfish
swimmin in a oh, deep, blue sea 
I would have all you good lookin women, 
fishin, fishin after me 
Sure 'nough, a-after me 
Sure 'nough, a-after me 
Oh 'nough, oh 'nough, sure 'nough 

I went to my baby's house, 
and I sit down oh, on her steps. 
She said, "Now, come on in now, Muddy 
You know, my husband just now left 
Sure 'nough, he just now left 
Sure 'nough, he just now left" 
Sure 'nough, oh well, oh well 

Well, my mother told my father, 
just before hmmm, I was born, 
"I got a boy child's comin, 
He's gonna be, he's gonna be a rollin stone, 
Sure 'nough, he's a rollin stone 
Sure 'nough, he's a rollin stone" 
Oh well he's a, oh well he's a, oh well he's a 

Well, I feel, yes I feel, 
feel that I could lay down oh, time ain't long 
I'm gonna catch the first thing smokin, 
back, back down the road I'm goin 
Back down the road I'm goin 
Back down the road I'm goin 
Sure 'nough back, sure 'nough back 
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