Hes In The Jailhouse Now - Blind Blake Chords

Chords: Chords, Chase, Chafin, C, G7, D, G, F, D7, A7

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Genre: blues, folk, traditional

Chords by Chase Chafin

http://www.facebook.com/ChaseChafinandTheConductor

This song is way more complex and just strumming chords, but this at least

gives you

some thing to go by.

There's also a tabbed out version here:

tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/blind_blake/hes_in_the_jailhouse_now_tab_778148id_

19012009date.htm

[Verse 1]

C
Remember last election,

C
Everybody was in action,

C G7
Tryin to find themselves a president

G7
There was a man named Lawson,

G7
From New York down to Boston,

D G
Representing the colored people we had sent

[Verse 2]

C
My brother was a voter,

C
also a great promoter,

C G7
goin round givin advice

D
They'd go to the poll and vote

D G7
Instead of voting once he voted twice

[Chorus]

C
He's in the jailhouse now

F C
He's in the jailhouse now

F D7
We got him down town in jail

C A7
No one to go his bail

C G C
He's in the jailhouse now

[Verse 3]

C
I went down town last Friday

C
I met a gal named Lidday

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