Bourgeois Blues Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[C]
[F][C][F][C]
[G][C]

[Verse 1]
[C]Me an[G]d my
[C]wife run all over town
Everywhere we'd go,
people would turn up now
[Cdim]It's a b[F]ourgeois town
It's a bour[C]geois town
I've got the [G]bourgeois blues
I'm gonna spread the
news all [C]around
Come along people, listen to me
Don't try to find no home in
Washington,
D .C.
It's a bour[F]geois town
It's a bour[C]geois town
I've [F]got the [G]bourgeois blues
I'm gonna spread the
news all [C]around[F][C]
Me and
Martha was standing upstairs
I heard a white man say
We don't want no niggas up there
Oh, it's a bour[F]geois town
Here's the [C]bourgeois town, I've got the [G]bourgeois blues I'm gonna spread
the [F]news [C]all [G]around[C][Dm][C][F]
[C][G][C][F][Dm][G][Dm]
[G][F][G][C][G][C]
Home of the brave and land of the free I don't
want to be mistreated by no bourgeois[D]ie
[F]It's a bourgeois town,
it's a [C]bourgeois town
[F]I got the b[G]ourgeois blues,
spread the news all [C]around[F][C]
[G]White [C]folks in
Washington, they know how
Throw a colored man a nickel
just to see him bow
[Dm]Oh, it's[C] a bourg[F]eois town
It's a bour[C]geois town
I [Dm]got the [G]bourgeois blues
I'm gonna spread the news
all [C]around[Am][C]
[G]Tell all the colored [C]folks
Listen to me
Don't try to find no home in
Washington,
D .C.
Cause it's a [F]bourgeois town
[C]The bourgeois town, I've got the [G]bourgeois blues,
I'm gonna spread the news all [C]around.[F#dim][C][F][C][Eb][C][F]
[G][C]
[F]Now, la [C]la [G]la, la la la, la la
[C]Wah!
Me and my wife run all over town
Everywhere we go,
colored people turn us down
It's the [F]bourgeois town
[Dm]It's the bour[C]geois town
[F]I got[Dm] the bour[G]geois blues,
I'm gonna spread the news all [C]around
[F#dim]Yeah, the[Cdim]re's[Ebdim][C]
a [F]bourgeois [C]jam[F]
[C]It's a bourgeois jam
[G]I got the bourgeois blues,
I'm gonna [C]spread [G]the news all [C]around
you