The Blues

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                The Blues - Randy Newman (and Paul Simon)

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Written by: Randy Newman
From: "Trouble in Paradise" (1983)

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

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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

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[Verse 1]
C            G/B                
  He's gonna tell you 'bout his 
Am       C/E
dear old mother
F              G       
Burned up in a factory in 
   C
Springfield, Mass.
C            G/B                
  He's gonna tell you 'bout his 
Am   C/E
baby brother
F                 G
Hustlin' down the city streets and
C             G/B       Am D/F# 
  Selling his ass for a dollar  
Gsus4   G
bag

[Verse 2]
C           G/B                
 He's gonna tell you 'bout his 
Am     C/E
uncle Neddy
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F              G             C
Locked up in a prison out in Oregon
C           G/B                
 He's gonna tell you 'bout his 
Am          C/E
best friend Eddie
F           G
Killed in a bar fight
       C           G/B       
With a   pair of marines and a 
  Am D/F# Gsus4   G
sailor, oh

[Chorus]
             C    G/B    Am  C/E
He's got the blues, this boy,   
     F
he's got the blues
        G
You can hear it in his music
             C    G/B    Am  C/E
He's got the blues, this boy    
    F
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         
He played and he played, he played
        [ C ]
 and he played

[Interlude]
| C | G/B | Am | C/G | F | D7/F# | 

C/G | G |

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

[Solo]
| C G/B | Am C/E | F | G |
| C G/B | Am C/E | F | G |