Three O'clock Blues Tab by B. B. King

Three O'clock Blues tab by B. B. King

Guitar Tab

In hopes of bringing the blues back:

        Here's an old B.B. King classic, Three O'Clock Blues.

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Verse:
        Now here it is, three o'clock in the morning...

        I've looked around me...

        Goodbye, everybody...

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A guy feels lonely then...

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You can't do whatever you wanna do...

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                                     You figure something you've done...

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             You don't know what it is...

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                               Then you say to yourself...

Guitar Solo I:
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                 I go up on my feet...

Guitar Solo II:

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        "It's hard for me to believe that at 66 years old, that my audience
        would be as young as they are and to have as many people who seem
        to like me as they do today." -----B.B. King

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