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Thread #10192   Message #152610
Posted By: Tony Burns
21-Dec-99 - 06:08 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Blues (My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me)
Subject: Lyr Add: BLUES MY NAUGHTY SWEETIE GIVES TO ME
This has been a popular topic recently.

I went to the Jugband Rag site and got the words to this but the chords don't all fit the tune as I know it from Kweskin's recordings. The first part is ok but it falls apart after a while. Does anyone have a better set of chords? (I'm still working on it but haven't got it yet).

Here's what was at the Jugband Rag site.

BLUES MY NAUGHTY SWEETIE GIVES TO ME
Swanstone/Carvon/Morgan
on Kweskin's See Reverse Side For Title

Suggested tablature:
Am // Dm // E7 // Am // B7 E7
Am // Dm E7 // Am // Am // G C

There are blues that you get from loneliness
And there are blues that you get from pain.
And there are blues when you are lonely
For your one and only
And there blues you can never explain.

And there are blues that you get from sleepless nights,
Oh, but the meanest blues that be:
They're the blues that I've got on my mind,
I mean the ones that are the meanest kind,
They're the blues my naughty sweetie gives to me.

There are blues you get from women when you see 'em going swimming and you haven't got a bathing suit yourself.
There are blues you get much quicker when you're drinking lots of liquor, and somebody goes and takes it off the shelf.
And there are blues you get when everything's in hock,
When your girlfriend doesn't answer when you knock,
And there are blues you get from getting in a taxicab and fretting everytime you feel the bumper jump a clock.

And there are blues you get from trying to keep your Uncle Bill from dying, and he afterwards forgets you in his will.
And there are blues you get from kisses when you're walking with your Mrs. and another girl shouts, "Hi, Bill!"
But the blues that make you hop and want to stop and shake and shiver
Are they blues that want you want to go and end it in the river,
They're the blues my naughty sweetie gives to me.