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How Long Blues

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How Long Blues
Leroy Carr
Key: Eb
Capo: 6
Shuffle feel--can add blues shuffle: ex. A to A6
[Intro]
A A A A A
A A A7 A7 A7
A7 A7 D7 D7 D7
D7 D7 D7 D7 D7
D7 D7 A7 A7 A7
A7 E7 E7 E7 E7
E7 E7 A A7 A7
[Intro Chorus]
How A7long, Babe7, how long has that D7evening train been gone
HDow A7long hA7ow lE7ong baby how A7long
[Verse 1]
YeahA, and I stood at the station, watch my baby lA7eaving town
Feeling Ddisgusted, nowhere could D7peace be found
[Chorus]
How Along, how how E7long, baby how lAongA7?
[Verse 2]
I Acan hear the whistle blowing, but I can’t A7see no train
And it’s Ddeep down in my heart baby, there D7lies an aching pain
[Chorus]
How Along, how how E7long, baby how lAongA7?
[Verse 3]
ASometimes I feel so disgustin' and I feel A7so blue
That I Dhardly know what in this world D7baby just to do
[Chorus]
How Along, how how E7long, baby how lAongA7?
[Verse 4]
AAnd if I could holler, like I was a A7mountain train
I'd Dgo up on the mountain and D7I'd call my baby back
[Chorus]
How Along, how how E7long, baby how lAongA7?
[Verse 5]
AAnd someday you gonna be sorry thaA7t you done me wrong
But Dit will be too late, D7I will be gone
[Chorus]
For so A7long, so E7long, baby so A7long?
[Verse 6]
AMy mind gets a ramblin'A7, I feel so bad
ThinkinD7' about the bad luck that D7I have had
[Chorus]
For how A7long, how, how E7long, baby how A7long?
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