original blues - acoustic - on a GDgB pot lid guitar
I went [I] down to the [V] train yard,
with my [IV] satchel in my [I] hand.
Headed some place to [V] be a new [I] man.
I left behind a [V] woman,
I never [IV] shoulda left [I] hind.
I was tired of working, tired of that old grind.
I had to ride the [V] blinds
cause' I [IV] didn't have much [I] dough.
I rode the Katy train to the [V] Gulf Of Mexi- [I] co.
I couldn't keep a [V] job there,
Cause I [IV] messed up left and [I] right.
I hopped the Southern Pacific and [V] left one stormy [I] night.
I drifted out to Cali-[V]fornia,
Had a [IV] job on the Frisco [I] Bay.
I had it made till I [V] pissed it all a-[I]way.
I got in with a [V ] bad crowd
and [IV] ended up in [I] jail
Ain't no way to get ahead be- [V] hind them county [I] bars.
I'm a drunk and a [V] bum.
I [IV] wasted my [I] life.
Never shoulda left that woman. [V] I could had a good [I] life.
SOLO & repeat first verse
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Thanks, Nancy! It's good to see a cat with a satchel.
Thanks, Sweetwater. :)
Good song UJ. Like that pot lid guitar too
LOL, Hound. Will fix that and thanks.
Thanks, Rich. It helps so much to sing in the right key. I don't have a big range, so I try to find the sweet key. Usually it is G, but it varies some.
Thank you Michael. I like those lyrics and sad story - in part because, 'There, but for the grace of God, goeth me.'
GREAT JOB UNCLE J - DEFINITELY THE BLUES AND LIFE
Uncle J -this song fits the timbre of your voice. ... a bit of high, lonesome going on.
I like it a lot.
Digging this a lot.
Says "solo and repeat last verse" when it's actually the first.
He must be drunk is what I thunk.
Hey, nice shirt.
Thanks James O. Thank you, Clock. I think those other Friscos lack a big bay!
Goody good good!
Frisco?
Frisco: Alabama, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, or Utah?
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