Statesboro Blues chords by Blind Willie McTell

Tuning: Drop D (D A D G B E)

Key: D

Verse:
D7                                     D7/C
Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low
G7                                D7
Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low
A9 A7                                                 D7
Have you got the nerve to drive Papa McTell from your door?

Verse:
D7
My mother died and left me reckless, my daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild
G7                                                       D7
Mother died and left me reckless, Daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild
A9 A7                                                     D7
No, I'm not good lookin' but I'm some sweet woman's angel child

Verse:
D7
She's a mighty mean woman, to do me this a-way
G7                                         D7
She's a mighty mean woman, to do me this a-way
A9 A7                                                   D7
When I leave this town, pretty mama, I'm going away to stay

Verse:
D7
I once loved a woman, better than any I'd ever seen
G7                                             D7
I once loved a woman, better than any I'd ever seen
A9 A7                                              D7
Treat me like I was a king and she was a dog-gone queen

Verse:
D7
Sister, tell your Brother, Brother tell your Auntie, now Auntie,
     tell your Uncle, Uncle tell my Cousin, now Cousin tell my friend
G7                                D7
Goin' up the country, Mama, don't you want to go?
A9 A7                                         D7
May take me a fair brown, may take one or two more

Verse:
D7
Big Eighty left Savannah, Lord, and did not stop
     You ought to saw that colored fireman when he got them boiler hot
G7                                                               D7
You can reach over in the corner, Mama, and hand me my travelin' shoes
A9 A7                                      D7
You know by that, I've got them Statesboro blues

Verse:
D7
Mama, Sister got 'em, Auntie got 'em
      Brother got 'em, friends got 'em, I got 'em
G7                                           D7
Woke up this morning, we had them Statesboro blues
A9 A7                                                    D7
I looked over in the corner, Grandma and Grandpa had 'em too