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Jimmy Reed chords by The Wave Pictures

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Chord diagramE minorEm Chord diagramG+G               Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramBB             Chord diagramE minorEm  Chord diagramG+G              Chord diagramC majorC      Chord diagramBB
I, stole the train out of your dream now you're full of bitter themes
Chord diagramE minorEm       Chord diagramG+G      Chord diagramC majorC       Chord diagramBB          Chord diagramE minorEm        Chord diagramG+G      Chord diagramC majorC      Chord diagramBB
standing by the fruit machines you showed me what ambition means.

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

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

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

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

(short solo)

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

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

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

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


[It sounds like he uses bar chords for all of this (most obvious is the beginning and ending barred Chord diagramE minorEm starting
on the 7th fret of the Chord diagramA 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:
   Chord diagramE minorEm  Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramBB   Chord diagramA 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 Chord diagramA 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 Chord diagramBB 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 Chord diagramE minorEm is how the song begins and ends.
I hope this was helpful for anyone, enjoy, I love this song.

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