Count My Blessings Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Em]

[Verse 1]
Mama [Em]gimme a nickel
and a deck of cards
Said go on and play in the back yard
Walking down the alley
come my Uncle Lonnie
Said lemme teach ya about
Three- card Monte

[Verse 2]
Take [Em]the ace of hearts and
two black queens
Flip 'em over so they can't be seen
Spin 'em around four or five times
Bet a nickel find the ace and
win a dime
Ten minutes later I had thirty five dollars

[Verse 3]
[Em]Singing
ain't misbehaving
by the great Fats Waller
I believe I'm gonna count
my blessings
I believe I'm gonna count

[Verse 4]
my blessings
[Em]
Now I saw a black crow
on a fence post
Singing away like Sam
Hopkins's ghost
He sang when you see I
ain't breathing no more
Nail my feathers to an old barn door

[Verse 5]
Or [Em]drag my carcass out behind the shed
Just make sure you're
pretty sure I'm dead
Ask an Ouija board if you can't quite tell

[Verse 6]
Or if I start to stink like the floors in hell
[Em]Go to Navasota after I'm done dying
It don't do you no good sitting
around [Bm]crying[Em]
So I got me a pencil and
a moleskin book
When I heard Bertha Franklin shot
and killed Sam Cooke

[Verse 7]
Wrote [Em]down December 11, 1964
Ain't gonna be twisting the
night away no more
It took 15 minutes for the
jury to decide
'Cause of death's justified homicide

[Verse 8]
Liza [Em]Boyer wasn't called
by the prosecution
Later on she's arrested for
prostitution
La Hacienda motel had
a busted down door
Sam's wallet and his money was never

[Outro 1]
accounted for
[Em][Esus4][Em]
[Em]