The Blues

Written by: Randy Newman
From: "Trouble in Paradise" (1983)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

CHORDS
          E-A-D-G-B-e
G/B       c-2-0-0-0-3
C/E       0-3-2-0-1-0
D/F#      2-x-0-2-3-2
Gsus4     3-x-0-0-1-3
Abaug     4-x-6-5-5-x or 4-x-2-1-1-x

Verse 1

C            G/B                Am       C/E
  He's gonna tell you 'bout his dear old mother
F              G          C
Burned up in a factory in Springfield, Mass.
C            G/B                Am   C/E
  He's gonna tell you 'bout his baby brother
F                 G
Hustlin' down the city streets and
C             G/B       Am D/F# Gsus4   G
  Selling his ass for a dollar  bag

Verse 2

C           G/B                Am     C/E
 He's gonna tell you 'bout his uncle Neddy
F              G             C
Locked up in a prison out in Oregon
C           G/B                Am          C/E
 He's gonna tell you 'bout his best friend Eddie
F           G
Killed in a bar fight
       C           G/B         Am D/F# Gsus4   G
With a   pair of marines and a sailor, oh

Chorus

             C    G/B    Am  C/E     F
He's got the blues, this boy,   he's got the blues
        G
You can hear it in his music
             C    G/B    Am  C/E    F
He's got the blues, this boy    has got the blues
        G
You can hear it, you can hear it
[Bridge 1] (Paul Simon)
Am                     Abaug
 When I was nine years old
C/G            D7/F#
 My daddy ran away
       C/G      G        C      G/B
With a woman he met on a train, oh
Am             Abaug
His little boy   ran to the room
C/G              D7/F#
 Where his piano lay in wait for him
   C/G                  G                 [ C ]
He played and he played, he played and he played

Interlude

| C | G/B | Am | C/G | F | D7/F# | C/G | G |

Chorus

             C    G/B    Am  C/E   F
He's got the blues, this boy   has got the blues
        G
You can hear it, you can hear it
             C    G/B    Am  C/E   F              G
He's got the blues, this boy   has got the blues
[Bridge 2] (Paul Simon)
Am           Abaug
  A year ago,  I met a girl
C/G                           D7/F#
 I thought we'd hit a massive groove
        C/G
But she dumped me
G
  And all we'd hit were the blues

Solo

| C G/B | Am C/E | F | G |
| C G/B | Am C/E | F | G |

Chorus

             C    G/B    Am  C/E     F
He's got the blues, this boy,   he's got the blues
        G
You can hear it in his music
             C    G/B    Am  C/E   F                     G
He's got the blues, this boy   has really got the blues

Solo

| C G/B | Am C/E | F | G |
| C G/B | Am C/E | F | G |