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‘BOOK OF
BLUES
AVE REA.
Instant no-frills arrangements of 225 great blues numbers
* melody line * chords x lyrics *
- That’s all there is to it! Just open the book and start playing!Contents
AMess Of Blues 4
Afro Blue 5
After You've Gone 8
All Or Nothing At All 6
‘As Long As I Have You 9
‘As Time Goes By 40
‘Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes) 24
Baby Doll a2
Baby What You Want Me To Do? 36
Back Door Man 14,
Backwater Blues 47,
Behind Closed Doors 22
Big Spender 28
Black Coffee a0
Blue Haze 23
Blue Monk 25
Blue Train Blues (Ticket Agent Take Your Window Down) 26
Blues (From ‘An American In Paris’) a8
Blues Ain't Nothing 29
Blues And Booze 30
Blues Around My Bed 3
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me 34
Blues Stay Away From Me 36
Bluesette 37
Body And Soul 40
Born To Lose 4
Bright Lights, Big City 44
Bring It With You When You Come 4
Broken Hearted Blues 45
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime 48
Buddy Bolden’s Blues 46
Built For Comfort 49
Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man 50
Can't Stop Lovin’ 5
Canal Street Blues 52
Careless Love 53,
Chelsea Bridge 54
Come Back Baby 55
Come Sunday 56
Corrine Corrina 58
Cotton Tail 60
Cottonfields 59
Crazy Man Blues 62
Crossroads Blues 63
Cry Your Blues Away 64
Dark And Dreary 65
De Kalb Blues 66
Deep River 67
Don’t Fish In My Sea 68
Don't Go To Strangers 69
Don't Sell it (Don’t Give It Away) 7
Down By The Riverside 70
Down The Road A Piece 7a
Duet 75,
Dust My Broom 76
Dust Pneumonia Blues 77
Early Auturnn 78
Evil (ls Goin’ On) 79
Feel So Bad 80
Fever 82
Fine And Mellow (My Man Don't Love Me) 84
Five Long Years 88
Folsom Prison Blues 86
Frankie And Johnny 89
From Four Until Late 9@
Georgia On My Mind g2
Go Back To Your No Good Man ga
Going Down Slow 94
Good Morning Blues 95
Good Morning Heartache 96
Goodbye Baby 98
Green River Blues 99
Hear Me Talkin’ To Ya s00
Here's That Rainy Day s02
Hey Hey Pretty Mama s03,
Hoochie Coochie Man 104
How Do You Want It Done? 108
How Insensitive 106
| Ain't Got Nobody (And There's Nobody Cares For Me) 30
| Can't Stop Loving You 209
| ust Want To Make Love To You 184
Remember Clifford sta
Wanna Be Around 235,
Wish | Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free 36
Vl Be Seeing You s37
Vm A King Bee 238
Vm So Glad 239
If Had You #20
In A Sentimental Mood 222
In The Heat OF The Night 223
It Could Happen To You 226
It Makes My Love Come Down 224
tts Only A Paper Moon 137
ouse Blues 228
Kindhearted Woman Blues 229
Lazy River s30
Lazybones 131
Lean Baby 434
Leamnin’ The Blues 432
Lemon Drop 435
Lit Darlin’ 336
Life Is Like That 138
imehouse Blues 439
Little David Play On Your Harp s40
Little Queen OF Spades 248
Little Red Rooster a4a
Long Gone Lonesome Blues 243
Love In Vain 44
Love Is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu) 45,
Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be) 447
Low Down Blues 250
Lush Life 148
Mad About Him, Sad Without Him, How Can I Be Glad
Without Him Blues 352‘ake Me A Pallet On Your Floor 458
Matchbox Blues 254
Mean And Evil 55
Mean Old Bed Bug Blues 456
ean To Me 457
Mean Woman Blues 458
Meditation (Meditaca0) 160
“Yemphis Blues 162
Midnight Sun 264
Million Years Blues (a
Like A Hammer) 359
Mind Your Own Business 266
Misty 467
Moongiow 468
Moonlight Becomes You 369
More Than You Know 470
My Babe s7a
My Baby Left Me 73
My Creole Belle 376
My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More $7%
Mystery Train a77
New York Town $78
Nightmare 479
No Matter How She Done It 8
No More Blues (Chega De Saudade) 180
| No More Lovers 483
| No Smoking 184
When My Heart Beats,
Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen 188
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out 186
| Ol Man River ag2
One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) 389
| One More River 194
| Pickpocket Blues 296
Please Warm My Wiener 395
Police Dog Blues 200
Prelude To A Kiss 298,
| Quiet Nights OF Quiet Stars (Corcovado) 20a
Ramblin’ On My Mind 203
Recado Bossa Nova (The Gift) 204
Richlands Woman Blues 206
Roberta 208
Rockin’ Chair 209
Salty Dog 222
San Francisco Bay Blues 230
See See Rider 213
Serenade In Blue 234
Seven Eleven 236
Seventh Son (Original Version) 239
Seventh Son (Version 2) 220
Shake That Thing 224
Shake Your Money Maker 222
She Ain't Nothing But Trouble 223
Silver City Bound 226
Singing The Blues 224
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 227
So Blue 228
Solituce 239
Someday 230
‘Someone To Watch Over Me a3
‘Sometimes | Feel Like A Motherless Child a32
Sorrowful Blues 233
‘Spoonful 334
Sporting Life Blues 235
‘Squeeze Me 236
St. James Infirmary 238
St. Louis Blues 239
Stars Fell On Alabama 242
Stella By Starlight 243,
Sugar Blues 244
‘Summertime Blues 246
‘Sunny 248
‘Swingin’ Shepherd Blues 250
Take These Chains From My Heart a5
Tenor Madness 252
Texas Blues 253,
That Ole Devil Called Love 254
That's Why I'm Lonesome a56
‘The Birth Of The Blues a57
The Blues Never Die 260
‘The Breeze (That's Bringing My Honey Back To Me) 258
The First Time | Met The Blues 263
The Lady Sings The Blues 26a
The Lonesome Road 266
The Nearness Of You 264
The Night We Called It A Day 267
‘The Old Piano Roll Blues 268
‘The Very Thought OF You 269
‘The Woman | Love 270
These Foolish Things 272
Three Hours Past Midnight 27a
Time On My Hands 274
Trane's Blues 275
Travelling Riverside Blues 276
Trouble In Mind 277
Tuxedo Junction 278,
Unforgettable 279
Walkin’ Blues 282
Walkin’ Shoes 283
Walking My Troubles Away 283
Way Down in The Mine 284
Weary Blues 286
Weeping Willow Blues 288
‘When Sunny Gets Blue 290
‘When The Lights Go Out 89
When You Got A Good Friend a2
When Your Lover Has Gone a93
Wild About That Thing 294
Willow Weep For Me 296
Worried Man Blues 298
You Can't Judge A Book By its Cover see
You'll Like My Loving 299
Your Cheatin’ Heart eaA Mess Of Blues
Words & Music by Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman
Medium tempo
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slept_a wink since Sun -day; 1 can’t eat @ thing all day.—
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4 ‘Aes esr tener ora secreAfro Blue
By Ramon ‘Mongo’ Santamaria
Medium fast
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Words & Music by Arthur Altman & Jack Lawrence
Medium slow
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Words & Music by Henry Creamer & Turner Layton
Medium slow
(2-33)
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Af-ter you've gone— and left me cry-ing, Af-ter you've gone—
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now don’t for-get it, There'll come a_ time when you'll re-gret it.
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Words & Music by Willie Dixon
Medium tempo
(2-33)
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Long as you, Longas | have — you,
Noth-ing 1 would -n't_ do, ba -by, Long as 1 have — you.—
Well, 1 don’t mind work-ing, I'll be your slave, Just call me, ba-by,and Ill
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rise from my grave. Long as | have— you, Longas | have — you,—
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Noth-ing | would-n’t do, ba-by, Longas | have you.—
Verse 2
Fl do like a lizard,
Il drag in the sand;
Just call me sweet names,
‘And Fl be your man.
Long as | have you,
Long as | have you,
Nothing | wouldn't do, baby,
Long as | have you.
eonAs Time Goes By
Words & Music by Herman Hupfeld
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You must re-mem-ber this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh;
when two lov -ers woo, they still say, “I love you,” On that you'can re- ly;
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world will al-ways wel-come lov-ers, as time —_ goes. by.
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Music by Joseph Kosma % Words by Jacques Prevert
Medium slow
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= Since you went a - way, the days grow —_longy.
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Words & Music by Bessie Smith
Medium tempo
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3Back Door Man
Words & Music by Willie Dixon
Medium slow
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1 am___ a back door
man.
— an a back door man- Well, the
men don’t— know but the lit-tle girls__un-der- stand.—
When ev - ‘ry-bo - dy’s try'nto sleep,
Ym some - where— mak-in’ my midnight —creep.—
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morn - in’. the roo - ster crow,
tell me— 1 got to go.
Verse 3
They take me to the doctor, shot full of holes;
Nurse cried “Can't save his soul.”
Accused him for murder, first degree,
Judge wife cried “Let the man go free.”
Verse 4
When everybody's tryin’ to sleep,
tm somewhere makin’ my midnight creep;
Every morning the rooster crow,
Something tell me | got to go.
Verse 5
Cop's wife cried, “Don’t kick him down,
Rather be dead, six feet in the ground.”
When you come home you can eat pork and beans;
Feat more chicken any man seen.
Verse 6
When everybody's try’n to sleep,
Fm somewhere makin’ my midnight creep.
Just the mornin’ the rooster crow,
‘Somethin’ tell me I got to go.
45,Baby What You Want Me To Do?
Words & Music by jimmy Reed
Medium tempo
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Got me run - nin’ you got me hid - in’, You got me
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run, hide, hide, run, an - yway you want to. Let it roll,
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yeah, yeah, yeah, You got me
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doin’ what you want me;— baby, why you want to let go?
Verse 2
Goin’ up, goin’ down,
Goin’ up, down, down, up, any way you want it.
Let it roll, yeah, yeah, yeah
You got me doin’ what you want me;
Baby, why you want to let it go?
Verse 3
Got me beeping, got me hiding,
Got me beep, hide, hide, beep, any way you want to.
Let it roll, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You got me doin’ what you want;
Baby, why you want to let it go?
16 ‘is ese tana Coppa scBackwater Blues
Medium tempo Words & Music by Bessie Smith
When it rained five days and the
skies turned dark as night, When it
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rained five days and the skies turned dark as night,
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Verse 2
J woke up this morning, wouldn’t even get out of my door. (Twice)
Enough trouble to make a poor girl wonder where she gonna go.
Verse 3
They rowed a little boat, about five miles ‘cross the farm. (Twice)
| packed up all my clothing, throwed it in and they rowed me along.
Verse 4
It thundered and it lightened and the winds began to blow. (Twice)
There was a thousand women didn’t have no place to go.
Verse 5
I went out to the lonesome, high old lonesome hill. (Twice)
[looked down on the old house where | used to live.
Verse 6
Backwater blues have caused me to pack up my things and go. (Twice)
‘Cos my house fell down and | can’t live there no more.
Verse 7
Mmm, | can’t live there no more. (Twice)
And there ain’t no place for a poor old girl to go.
7Big Spender
‘Stripper’ Tempo
(2-7)
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would-n’t you like to know what’s go-ing on in my mind? So let me get
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right to the point: 1 don’t pop my cork for ev-‘ry guy | see—
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19Black Coffee
Words & Musi cis Webster & Sonny Burl
Medium slow fords & Music by Paul Francis Webster & Sonny Burke
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talk - in’ to the sha-dows, one o” clock to four;— Ane
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walk the floor and watch the door, and in be-tween I drink black cof-fee,—
Lord how slow the mo-ments go,—when all | do is pourblack cof-fee.—
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Since my gal went a - way
My nerves have gone to pie - ces,
Love's a sor-ry af - fair____ 1 know where al the blues are,
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Feel - in’ low as can be. It’s driv-in’ me cra-zy, this
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wait-in’ for my ba-by to may-be come a - round.
2aBehind Closed Doors
Traditional
Medium tempo
N.C. @ C
me
Now, 1 don’t want my ba - by— stand-in’ be-hind a closed—
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door, ___ No, 1 don't want my ba - by
stand - in’ be - hing a closed door, —______ Now
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when the door is closed, no one butthe Lord a-bove to know.
Verse 2
When I first met you, baby, you was behind a closed door. (Twice)
You know | was beggin’ and beggin’ you, make me a pallet on your floor.
Verse 3
Darling, you know I love you, | love you for myself.
Don’t want you to fool around and find somebody else.
I don’t want you, baby, standing behind a closed door.
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22 Bbq od wren yng sce| Blue Haze
By Miles Davis
Medium swing
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Medium tempo By Thelonious Monk.
(B=73)
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Words & Music by S lam
Meciamislow! sic by Spencer Wiliams
(2-3)
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blue train comes a-long, J won't snatch it back.
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27Blues (From ‘An American In Paris’)
By George Gershwin
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28Blues Ain’t Nothing
Words & Musi by Georgia White
Medium tempo
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must have been those wea-ry blues | had.—
Verse 2
Honey, when I die, honey, when I die, don’t you go wear no black.
Honey, when I die, don’t go wear no black;
For if you do, my bones'll come a-creeping back.
Verse 3
I'm a-going downtown, I'm a-going downtown, gonna buy myself some glue.
Vm a-going downtown, gonna buy myself some glue;
‘Cos the woman I’ve been loving, she broke my heart in two.
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Traditional
Medium tempo
(0-73)
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— up this morn- in’, the po - lice was shak - in’ me.
Verse 2
J went to the jailhouse, drunk and blue as | could be. (Twice)
But that cruel old judge sent my man away from me.
Verse 3
They carried me to the courthouse; Lordy, how | was cryin’. (Twice)
They jailed me sixty days in jail, and money couldn't pay the fine.
Verse 4
Sixty days ain’t long if you can spend them as you choose. (Twice)
But this seems like jail, ina cell where there ain’t no booze.
Verse 5
My life is all a misery when | cannot get my booze. (Twice)
I spend every dime on liquor, got to have the booze to go with these blues.
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Words & Musi by Spencer Wiliams
Medium slow
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say good - bye, that is why 1 sit and sigh.
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Left with-out a warm -in’, now my hap-pi-ness is dead; And |
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shake with fright— with the com-in’ of the night.
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blues a-roun’ my bed. Cry -in’ Law - dy, Law-dy, I wish that | was dead.
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33Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me
Words & Music by Arthur N. Swanstrom, Charles R. McGarron & Carey Morgan
Medium swing
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What is that song a-bout —kiss-es?__ What is thatsong— a-bout
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blues my naugh-ty sweet-ie gives. to —me.
35Blues Stay Away From Me
‘Words & Music by Wayne Raney, Henry Glover, Alton Delmore & Rabon Delmore
Slow _,
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1, Blues, stay a-way from me.
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Dreams. are like a me - mo - ry,—————____ Bring - ing
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why you keep on haunt - ing me,
back your love that used tobe.
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Love__________ was nev - ermeant for—_— me..
Tears, so ma - ny | can't. see..
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Words by Norman Gimbel & Music by Jean Thielemans
Medium jazz waltz
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Poor lit - tle, sad lit - tle, blue Blues - ette, don’t. you cry,
Long asthere’s love in your heart to share, dear Blues - ette,
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day, love - ly love will come your way.
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= Ev - ‘ry dream has on - ly brought me pai
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Words & Music by Gus Cannon
Medium fast
(M=13)
N.C.
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catch. the— next freight train.— Now, if you wan-na be— a lit-te
girl of mine. bring it with you when you come.—
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43Bright Lights, Big City
Words & Music by Jimmy Reed
Medium fast
7
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Bright lights, big ci- ty gone to my ba - by’s head.-
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gone to my ba -by’s head._ 1 tried to tell the wo-man, but she
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don't be-lieve a word said.
Verse 2
All right, pretty baby, gonna need my help some day. (Twice)
You gonna wish you had listened to some of the the things | say.
Verse 3
Bright lights, big city, gone to my baby’s head. (Twice)
I got to tell your mama that you don’t believe a thing I said.
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44 seta sane vet opi SeanBroken Hearted Blues
Words & Music by Wille Oixon
Slow
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Chills on my_ pil - low,— ice - wa-ter in my ba-by’s bed.
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and you left me for an-oth-er man.—
Verse 2
If you happen to see my baby, | want you to tell her I been cryin’ on my knees. (Twice)
Tell me pray to my master, please hope her back to me.
Verse 3
If Thad ten million dollars, woman, you know | would give you every dime. (Twice)
‘Just to hear you call me daddy one more time.
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By Ferdinand lly Roll Morton
Medium slow
(n-7))
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Thought | heard bud-dy Bol-den say— “You're nas -ty, you're dir-ty,
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thought! heard him say.— 1 thought | heard_ _—Bud-dy_Bol-den shout
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take him a - way. Give him a good broom to sweep with,
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a7Brother, Can You Spare A Dime
Music by Jay Gomey % Words by E ¥. Harburg
Medium slow
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2.Once | built a tow-er to. ‘the sun; —Brick and _riv - et and lime.
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48Built For Comfort
Words & Music by Wille Dixon
Medium tempo
7
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‘Some folks built like this, some folks builtlike that, But the
way !m built, well don’t you callme fat. Be-cause I'm
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built for com - fort,— 1 ain’t__ built for speed;—
But | got ev-er- y-thing,
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All_________ that a _good girl needs.
Verse 2
1 ain’t got no diamonds, | ain't got no boat,
But | do have love that’s gonna fire your soul.
‘Cos I'm built for comfort, | aint built for speed;
But | got everything all you good women need.
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Music by Jerome Kern % Words by Oscar Hammerstein I
Medium slow
(G=13)
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Fish got to swim and birds got to fly— I got to love— one
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man till | die,— Can’t help lov-in’ dat man— of mine.
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may-be | know,— Can't help fov-in’ dat_ man— of mine...
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When he goes @- way— dat’s a rain- y day,— and when he comes
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back dat day is fine,. the sun will shine. Hecan come home as.
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fate as can be,— home with - out him ain‘t no home to me,—
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Words & Music by Elmore james
Medium tempo
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1 can't stop —fov-in’,— my ba-by to-night.
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No mat-ter what | do, she won't treat me right.
Verse 2
loved my baby, this mornin’ soon. (Twice)
I didn’t come back home till this afternoon.
Verse 3
When | leave my baby, she’s all alone. (Twice)
can’t have no lovin’, cos my baby’s gone.
Verse 4
Oh, baby, come and walk with me. (Twice)
fl make you happy, baby, as any girl can be.
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By Joe ‘King’ Oliver
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52Careless Love
Traditional
Medium slow
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1. Love, oh love, oh care-less love; —______
heed, for what | say is true, Don't
You go to. my head like wine, —________ You've
spend your lives in mi - se = ry. —_______ Don’t
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ruin’d the life of — ma-ny — a_ poor girl, — And
let love do to ev-'ry_ one. of, you What
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care - less love has done to me..
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By Billy Strayhorn
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54 ge eeeCome Back Baby
Words & Music by Norman Petty & Fred Neit
Medium slow
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Verse 2
For the way | love you, you know 1 do;
For the way you love me, baby,
You never know.
Come back, baby, let’s talk it over
One more time.
Verse 3
You know I love you, tell the world | do;
For the way | love you, baby,
You'll never know.
So come back, baby, let's talk it over
One more time.
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By Duke Etington
Slow
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57Corrine Corrina
Words & Music by . M. Wiliams & Bo Chatman
‘Gospel’ swing
& @ Cm C we
Cor -rine Cor - fi- = na,
where you been so fong?.
— Cor -rine Cor - ri- - na, where you been so long?
C An? A? G? Dr?” @ Adm A” GCP
— Ain't been no lov - in’_______ since. you been —_ gone.
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— 1 love Cor - ri- ~- na, tell the world | do.
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make your mark for your friends to see;— But when you need more than
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com-pa- ny, Don’t go to stran-gers, dar-ling,come to me.
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Down by the rv - er = - side.Down The Road A Piece
Words & Music by Don Raye
Medium fast
(0-73)
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y Ddim D? Draug G An? 6°Don’t Sell It (Don’t Give It Away)
Words & Music by Oscar Woods
Medium tempo
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It was ear- ly one — morn - in’ ‘pout the break of day.
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Don’t you hear me cry -in’, won't you list-enwhat | say? — Ear-ly one mom -in’
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ba -by, ‘bout the break of day. Told me not to sell it;
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Pa-pa, don’t you give it a - way. I said yes, baby, yes;
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Verse 2
You know you didn’t want me, why did you call; don’t you hear me cryin’ little all and all.
You know you didn’t want me, baby why did you call?
I can get more women than a passenger train can haul
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Words & Music by Robert johnson
Medium tempo
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girl-friend, can get my room.
Verse 2
'm gon’ write a letter, telephone every town | know. (Twice)
If | can't find her in West Helena, she must be in East Monroe, | know.
Verse 3
| don’t want no woman wants every downtown man she meet. (Twice)
She’s a no good doney, they shouldn't ‘low her on the street.
Verse 4
I believe, | believe Ill go back home. (Twice)
You can mistreat me here, babe, but you can’t when | get home.
Verse 5
And 'm gettin’ up in the morning, | believe I'll dust my broom. (Twice)
Girlfriend, the black man that you been lovin’, girlfriend, can get my room.
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