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Walking Blues

by Robert Johnson, Bonnie Raitt · posted by WaltP

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Tab
WALKING BLUES
By: Robert Johnson
Paul Butterfield, Bonnie Raitt
Key: G

       G7
3  -4  -6  -6   -5 -43
I woke up this morn-in', 

 3   -2    3   -2  3    3
Feel-in' round for my shoes

 -2  3   3   3  3    3   -5  -3*  -3    3
Know by that I got these old walk-in' blues, 
    C7
-3*   -6*  -5   5 -3*3
Well woke this mor-nin' 
                      G7
 -2    3   -2  -2   3
Feel round for my shoes
          C7
 3  -3*  4   4   -4
But you know by that, 
 (D7)                      G
-3 4   -5 5 -5   -3*  3    3
I got these old walk-in' blues

Lord I feel like blowin my old lonesome horn
Got up this mornin, my little Bernice was gone, Lord
I feel like blowin my lonesome horn
Well I got up this mornin, whoa all I had was gone

Well, leave this mornin' if I have to, ride the blinds
I feel mistreated, and I don't mind dyin'
Leavin this mornin', if I have to ride the blind
Babe, Ive been mistreated, baby and I don't mind dyin'

Well, some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad
Worst old feelin' I most ever had
Some people tell me that these old worried old blues ain't bad
It's the worst old feelin', I most ever had

Shes got a elgin movement from her head down to her toes
Break in on a dollar most anywhere she goes
Ooh, from her head down to her toes
Lord, she break in on a dollar, most anywhere she goes
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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