Mississippi Delta Blues chords by Jimmie Rodgers

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
    C majorC        C7C7        FF    G+G
With friends around and even pals that I know are true
G+G          G7G7     C majorC
Still I'm lonely, homesick and blue
 C majorC           C7C7        FF
There's no one who can cheer me when I'm all alone
G+G        G7G7     C majorC
Longing for my Mississippi home

Chorus:
C majorC        C7C7  C majorC       C7C7   G+G
Way down in the delta on that Mississippi shore
G+G       G7G7            C majorC
In that muddy water, I long to be once more
C majorC          C7C7     C majorC          A minorAm
When night shadows creep about and the whippoorwill callS
D MajorD         D7D7      D MajorD         G+G
You can hear old mammy shout, "Come in here, you all"

C majorC        C7C7    C majorC       C7C7    G+G
Way down on the levee, strolling in the pale moon light
G+G          G7G7         G+G        C majorC+
You can see those steamboats and the fields of snowy white
     FF                C majorC
That's a feeling I can't lose that muddy water in my shoes
G+G         G7G7        C majorC
When I get those Mississippi Delta blues

Verse 2:
 C majorC          C7C7         FF    G+G
I long to hear them talk and sing those old melodies
G+G       G7G7      C majorC
Swanee River and Ol' Black Joe
C majorC           C7C7       FF
That sweet magnolia perfume floating on the breeze
G+G         G7G7       C majorC
Way down south is where I long to go

Chorus:
C majorC        C7C7  C majorC       C7C7   G+G
Way down in the delta on that Mississippi shore
G+G       G7G7            C majorC
In that muddy water, I long to be once more
C majorC          C7C7     C majorC          A minorAm
When night shadows creep about and the whippoorwill callS
D MajorD         D7D7      D MajorD         G+G
You can hear old mammy shout, "Come in here, you all"

C majorC        C7C7    C majorC       C7C7    G+G
Way down on the levee, strolling in the pale moon light
G+G          G7G7         G+G        C majorC+
You can see those steamboats and the fields of snowy white
     FF                C majorC
That's a feeling I can't lose that muddy water in my shoes
G+G         G7G7        C majorC