Lovesick Blues
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
1922
Music: Cliff Friend
Lyrics: Irving Mills
Note on the structure: this originally appeared in the 1922 musical 'Oh Ernest' and
featured more lyrics
than the versions most of us are more familiar with today (see Jack Shea's version of
that same year).
Emmett Miller recorded it twice, once in 1925 as below with the 'chorus' part repeated,
and again in 1928
without the repeat but with a long spoken word/hokum intro. In all these cases, the
singing starts with the
"I'm in Love" bit. Rex Griffin's 1939 version jumbles it up to start with the "I got a
feelin' called the
blues" part as does Hank Williams' 1948 version. There are many other versions but I
first knew it from the
1974 Captain Matchbox one which I'm pretty sure was based on the Emmett Miller
recordings.
[Intro] :
G7 C7 F A# F
Dm
[Verse]:
Dm
I'm in love, I'm in love with a beautiful girl
A7 Dm
That's what's the matter with me
Dm
I'm in love, I'm in love, with a beautiful girl
G C
But she don't care about me
C7
To make her love me I tried
F
How I sighed and I cried
A7 Dm
But she just refused
G C E7 A7
And ever since my mama's gone a- way
G C C7
I've got those lovesick blues
[Chorus]:
F
I got the feeling called the blu-ues
C
Since my mama said good-bye
C7
Seems I don't know what to do-o
F
All day long I sit and cry
Bb Bdim
That last long day we spent alone
F A7 Dm
I'm yearning for it girl
G
She thrilled me, filled me with a kind of lovin'
C F
I never will forget, the way she called me sweet daddy
C
Twas just a beautiful dream
C7 A7
I hate to think that it's all over I lost my heart it seems
Bb Bdim
I got so used to her somehow
F A7 D7
But I'm no-body's papa now
G
It's awful when you're lonesome
C F
And you got those lovesick blues
How to play Lovesick Blues
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Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
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