Artist: George Harrison
Song: Sue Me, Sue You Blues
Album: Living In The Material World (1973)
URL's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Me,_Sue_You_Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2JIexhpMNs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qeMnRVHZf0
Tempo: 4|4
Style: Square-Dance Calls set to a Blues Ballad
Tuning: Open E (EBEAbBE)
Chords
654321 = EBEAbBe (Actual)
E7: 000030
A: 555555
G: 333333
E: 000000
D: X3213X or 101010101010(preferred)
C: 888888
F#7: XX2220
F#9: XX2020
INTRO:
|E7 |E7 |E7 |E7 |
VERSE 1:
A
You serve me and I'll serve you,
G E
Swing your partners, all get screwed.
A
Bring your lawyer and I'll bring mine,
G E7
Get together, and we could have a bad time.
VERSE 2:
A
It's affidavit swearing time,
G E
Sign it on the dotted line.
A
Hold your Bible in your hand,
G E7
Now all that's left, is to find yourself a new band.
CHORUS 1:
N.C. D A C G F#7
We're gonna play the sue me, sue you blues.
N.C. D A C G F#9
We're gonna play the sue me, sue you blues.
INSTRUMENTAL 1:(Slide Guitar Over)
|A |A |A |A |
|A |A |A |G E |
|A |A |A |A |
|A |A |A |G E7 |
CHORUS 2:
N.C. D A C G F#7
We're gonna play the sue me, sue you blues.
N.C. D A C G F#9
We're gonna play the sue me, sue you blues.
VERSE 2:
A
Hold the block on money flow,
G E
Move it into joint escrow.
A
Court receiver, laughs and thrills,
E7
But in the end, we just pay those lawyers their bills.
VERSE 3:
A
When you serve me and I'll serve you,
G E
Swing your partners, all get screwed.
A
Bring your lawyer and I'll bring mine,
G E7
Get together and we could have a bad time.
CHORUS 3:
N.C. D A C G F#7
We're gonna play the sue me, sue you blues.
N.C. D A C G F#9
We're gonna play the sue me, sue you blues.
CHORUS 4:
N.C. D A C G F#7
We're gonna play the sue me, sue you blues.
N.C. D A C G F#9
I'm tired of playin' the sue me, sue you blues.
INSTRUMENTAL REFRAIN 1:(Slide Guitar Over)
|N.C. D|A C G F#7 |
|N.C. D|A C G F#9 |
INSTRUMENTAL 3:(Slide Guitar Over)
|A |A |A |A |
|A |A |A |G E |
|A |A |A |A |
|A |A |A |G E7 |
INSTRUMENTAL REFRAIN 2:(Slide Guitar Over)
|N.C. D|A C G F#7 |
|N.C. D|A C G F#9 |
INSTRUMENTAL REFRAIN 3:(Slide Guitar Over)
|N.C. D|A C G F#7 |
|N.C. D|A C G F#9 |
INSTRUMENTAL REFRAIN 4:(Slide Guitar Over)
|N.C. D|A C G F#7 |
|N.C. D|A C G F#9 |
INSTRUMENTAL REFRAIN 5:(Slide Guitar Over)
|N.C. D|A C G F#7 |
|N.C. D|A C G F#9 |
INSTRUMENTAL CODA:(Slide Guitar Over) [Fade Out]
|N.C. D|A C G F#7 |
|N.C. D|A C G F#9 |
[End]
Notes.
1. An early demo of the song exists and clearly reveals the 'Open E' tuning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qeMnRVHZf0
2. Regarding the song's square-dance theme, [Leng] suggests that folk dancing's
cycle of about-turns and to-and-fro movement reminded Harrison of the Beatles'
"seemingly endless, and pointless, legal orbits around one another" in the early
70's.
