Statesboro Blues chords by Blind Willie McTell

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Drop D MajorD (D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: D MajorD

Verse:
D7D7                   D7/C
Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low
G7G7                D7D7
Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low
A9A9 A7A7                         D7D7
Have you got the nerve to drive Papa McTell from your door?

Verse:
D7D7
My mother died and left me reckless, my daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild
G7G7                            D7D7
Mother died and left me reckless, Daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild
A9A9 A7A7                           D7D7
No, I'm not good lookin' but I'm some sweet woman's angel child

Verse:
D7D7
She's a mighty mean woman, to do me this a-way
G7G7                     D7D7
She's a mighty mean woman, to do me this a-way
A9A9 A7A7                          D7D7
When I leave this town, pretty mama, I'm going away to stay

Verse:
D7D7
I once loved a woman, better than any I'd ever seen
G7G7                       D7D7
I once loved a woman, better than any I'd ever seen
A9A9 A7A7                       D7D7
Treat me like I was a king and she was a dog-gone queen

Verse:
D7D7
Sister, tell your Brother, Brother tell your Auntie, now Auntie,
   tell your Uncle, Uncle tell my Cousin, now Cousin tell my friend
G7G7                D7D7
Goin' up the country, Mama, don't you want to go?
A9A9 A7A7                     D7D7
May take me a fair brown, may take one or two more

Verse:
D7D7
Big Eighty left Savannah, Lord, and did not stop
   You ought to saw that colored fireman when he got them boiler hot
G7G7                                D7D7
You can reach over in the corner, Mama, and hand me my travelin' shoes
A9A9 A7A7                   D7D7
You know by that, I've got them Statesboro blues

Verse:
D7D7
Mama, Sister got 'em, Auntie got 'em
   Brother got 'em, friends got 'em, I got 'em
G7G7                      D7D7
Woke up this morning, we had them Statesboro blues
A9A9 A7A7                          D7D7
I looked over in the corner, Grandma and Grandpa had 'em too