Blues around my bed

by Spencer Williams

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Blues around my bed......................
Key Eb
Words & music by Spencer Williams 1943
(moderate blues)
 
 I  woke up  this morn-in’--/-- /
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found my lov-in’ man had/fled did-n’t/
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say good-bye--/that is why I sit and/
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sigh--/-- /left with-out a warn-in--/--  /
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now my hap-pi-ness is/dead and I/
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shake with fright--/with the com-in of the/
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night---/--- //on my lone-ly pil-low/
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heav-y lies my head’cause/
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my  man’s gone and left me with the/
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blues a-roun’ my bed cry-in/law-dy law-dy/
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 I  wish that I  was dead-/----/-   /
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Deep shad-ows taunt me/
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got the blues a-roun’ my bed-/----/-   /
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I’m a weep-in’ wil-low/man-y tears I’ve shed since/
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My man went and left me with the/
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Blues a-roun’ my bed sigh-in’/mer-cy mer-cy/
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Be - cause I’m so  a- fraid/----/-   /
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when mem-‘ries haunt me/
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with those blues a-roun my bed----/-   //:
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Instrumental
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boat’s way up the riv-er/and it’s com-in’ down/
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 I  quake and quiv-er ‘cause it’s/
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Al-a-ba-ma boun’ tak- in my /man a- way to /
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Stay that’s what the Cap-‘um said/----/
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--leav-in’ those/
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nev-er sleep-in’ ev-er creep-in’/
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blues a-roun’ my bed/----/--- /
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blues a-roun’ my/bed---/----/----//
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