Easy Rider Blues

Blind Lemon Jefferson

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Key:
G [Verse 1]
G Aw, tell me where my easy rider's gone.
C G Tell me where my easy rider's gone.
D7 C G Well, anywhere these women always in the wrong. [Verse 2]
G Your easy rider died on the road.
C G Man, the easy rider died on the road.
D C G I'm a poor boy here and ain't got nowhere to go. [Verse 3]
G There's gonna be the time that a woman don't need no man.
C G Well it's gonna be a time a woman don't need no man.
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D C G Say, baby, shut your mouth and don't be raisin' sand. [Verse 4]
G Train I ride don't burn no coal at all.
C G Train I ride don't bburn no coal at all.
D C G The coal I burn everybody say is the cannonball. [Verse 5]
G I went to the dep -o-t,
C G I mean I went to the depot, sat my suitcase down.
D C G The blues overtake me and the tears co me rollin' down. [Verse 6]
G The woman I love, she must be out of town.
C G Woman I love, man, she's outta town.
D C G She left me this mornin' with her face in a terrible frown. [Verse 7]
G I got a gal across town, she crochets all the time.
C I got a gal across town, crochetin' all the time.
D C G Sugar, you don't quit crochetin, you're gonna lose your mind. [Verse 8]
G Say fair brown, what's the matter now?
C G Say fair brown, what's the matter now?
D C G G7 You're tryin' your best to quit me, woman, and you don't know how.
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Composition: Blind Lemon Jefferson

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