BORN BY THE BLUES written by Sheldon Manoo (20/05/99)

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Slow 12 Bar Blues in the key of G# (1-3-1-1-3-3-1-1-5-3-1-1)
(All bars with no words are for guitar solos and fills)

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G# From the day I was born
G# Said my daddy was gone
C# Yeah from the day I was born
C# My daddy was gone
G# (I never knew the sucker!)
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D# And mama she worked the nights
C# Yes mama she worked the night
G# Like all those poor girls did
G# Yeah like all those poor girls did
G#My mama she had six abortions
C# And I was the one that failed
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C# Yeah mama had six abortions
C# And I was the one that failed
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D# It don't matter to me at least I'm alive
C# And hey I ain't retarded
G# (I weren't affected by her smoking and drinking!)
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G#Said from the day I was born
C#From the day I came to this earth
G# Said I had to be bound
G# I was bound to be kicked to the dirt
C# Cause when I reached the age of two
C# Mama left me by somebody's stairs
G# Yeas when I turned two
G#Mama left me by somebody's stairs
D# But those people oh those people
C# They didn't want no baby there
G# (Carry me the orphanage they did!)
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C# When I turned seventeen
C# The orphanage said I had to go
G# Yes when I turned seventeen
G#The orphanage said I must go
D# Said they didn't have no room
C# Fo' me there no mo'
G# (It was ok, I was tough enough!)
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G#Well I got a little end
C#Working in a grocery store
G# Said I got a little end
G# Working in a grocery store
C# Got me a room to rent
C# Where everybody was poor
G# (And it was alright!)
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D# The girl next door had a crush on me
C# She said I was just so nice
G# So I said, "I'll be your honey"
G# "If you would be my spice"
G# (Like fire and ice!)
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G# Well one day I fell sick and came home from working
G# Caught her kissing the only good friend I had
C# He was a lot older and he even looked like me
C# Some say he could be my dad
G# (Well off they both go, out of my life!)
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D# Said from the day I was born
C# I was born by the blues
G# So all through my life now
G# It's what I'd have to get used ta!
G# Born by the blues I was
C# Born by the blues
G# Born by the blue owh ooz
G# Born by the blues
C# I was born by the blues oh
C# Born by the blues
G# Born Born Born Born
G# Born by the blues
D# Born by the blue blue blues
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