Jimmy Reed chords by The Wave Pictures

Chords with lyrics

E minorEm G+G        C majorC  BB       E minorEm G+G       C majorC   BB
I, stole the train out of your dream now you're full of bitter themes
E minorEm    G+G   C majorC    BB     E minorEm    G+G   C majorC   BB
standing by the fruit machines you showed me what ambition means.

E minorEm          G+G    C majorC         BB
you're a highly paid actress struggling to get work as a waitress,
E minorEm          G+G   C majorC     BB
you ran away from the circus to go to school,
E minorEm      G+G  C majorC    BB
this ripe tomato that you call your brain
   E minorEm   G+G    C majorC   BB
is beginning, to get on my nerves again

  A augmentedA        E minorEm
Oh David, you said, sometimes life gets complicated
  A augmentedA               BB
the telephone sweet telephone the kind of talk I've always hated
E minorEm A augmentedA     E minorEm A augmentedA     E minorEm A augmentedA     E minorEm A augmentedA
yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah
G+G       A augmentedA      E minorEm A augmentedA  E minorEm A augmentedA
baby you don't have to go, yeah, yeah yeah yeah
  G+G       A augmentedA     E minorEm A augmentedA  E minorEm A augmentedA
cos Jimmy Reed he told you so

E minorEm       G+G       C majorC     BB
I would like to die tonight without any feelings of guilt,
E minorEm   G+G     C majorC    BB
no use cryin over all the milk I've spilled,
  E minorEm       G+G  C majorC        BB  E minorEm     G+G   C majorC    BB
on bedrooms floors, behind closed doors, on silk tight ladies bellies
    E minorEm        G+G          C majorC           BB
well I called about your hair your legs your eyes your mouth your skin
  E minorEm       G+G        C majorC             BB
and I got drunk and fell asleep and dreamed of all the places you had been,
E minorEm  G+G    C majorC  BB     E minorEm G+G   C majorC    BB
every dream ended in violence,  the rest is silence

A augmentedA        E minorEm
David, you said, my mouth is sweet as pink ice cream
A augmentedA        BB
David you said, I will get you in my dreams
  E minorEm A augmentedA     E minorEm A augmentedA     E minorEm A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA
oh yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah? yeah?
G+G       A augmentedA      E minorEm A augmentedA  E minorEm A augmentedA
baby you don't have to go, yeah
G+G       A augmentedA      E minorEm A augmentedA   E minorEm A augmentedA
Jimmy Reed he told you so, yeah

(short solo)

     E minorEm    G+G     C majorC     BB
Well it's raining, squirrels, hedgehogs, pigs and moths
  E minorEm  G+G       C majorC   BB
and I am in my bedroom worshiping fake gods
E minorEm  G+G         C majorC        BB
Gene Simmons tongue it keeps the world turning
  E minorEm          G+G          C majorC      BB
you stalk my liver with a volcanic quiver, my pancreas is burning

A augmentedA        E minorEm
David, you said I live my life like birthday cake
A augmentedA             BB
every year another layer, every year a new mistake
E minorEm A augmentedA     E minorEm A augmentedA     E minorEm A augmentedA     E minorEm A augmentedA
yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yayayayayeah oh
G+G       A augmentedA      E minorEm A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA
baby you don't have to go, yeah, yeah
G+G           A augmentedA      E minorEm A augmentedA  E minorEm A augmentedA
ya know Jimmy Reed he told you so, yeah

  E minorEm           G+G        C majorC       BB
Your swimming trunks, your cigarettes, your dusty Spanish castanets
   E minorEm        G+G           C majorC          BB
your childish brothers childish threats, the (______?) microwave cooking.
  E minorEm         G+G          C majorC         BB
It took you a month to learn my name now I wish you would forget it
    E minorEm          G+G             C majorC       BB
all the stuff you said would mess up my head but don't worry I do not let it.

A augmentedA        E minorEm
David you said, sometimes I feel like I lost a bet,
A augmentedA                          BB
when boys blow kisses at my (___? __? ________?), it burns my soul like a cigarette,
  E minorEm A augmentedA     E minorEm A augmentedA     E minorEm A augmentedA       E minorEm A augmentedA
oh yeah! I said yeah, I said yayayayayayayeaheyeahyeah
G+G       A augmentedA      E minorEm A augmentedA     E minorEm A augmentedA
baby you don't have to go, yeah, I said yeah
G+G           A augmentedA      E minorEm A augmentedA  E minorEm A augmentedA
ya know Jimmy Reed he told you so, yeah, yeah
G+G         A augmentedA      E minorEm A augmentedA      E minorEm A augmentedA
oh baby you don't have to go, no no no no no no no no no no no
G+G         A augmentedA   E minorEm A augmentedA  E minorEm A augmentedA
Jimmy Reed he told you so
E minorEm A augmentedA    E minorEm Em E minorEm Em E minorEm Em E minorEm Em E minorEm


[It sounds like he uses bar chords for all of this (most obvious is the beginning and ending barred E minorEm starting
on the 7th fret of the A augmentedA string), but that is up to you, along with any other little intricacies.]

in fact these are the assumed bars he may and or does use:
  E minorEm G+G  C majorC  BB  A augmentedA  maybe: B#/Ab
[--7---3---3---2---5------------1-
[--6---3---5---4---5------------3-
[--9---4---5---4---6------------3-
[--9---5---5---4---7------------3-
[--7---5---3---2---7------------1-
[-(0)--3---x---x---5------------x-

now on the B#/Ab, I personally use the standard finger placement for the A augmentedA chord when I play this song, so that
between the end of the verse and the beginning of the chorus I throw the B#/Ab in there between the BB and the A,
and do that little walk-down. I believe he does that in the song at least a time or two.
Anyway, you can definitely tell that that barred E minorEm is how the song begins and ends.
I hope this was helpful for anyone, enjoy, I love this song.