Thats How I Learned To Sing The Blues

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           That's How I Learned To Sing The Blues - Henry Hipkens
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Artist website: http://www.henryhipkens.com/

Tabbed by: Jonathan Jansson
E-mail: [email protected]

Tuning: eBGDAE

INTRO:
C7 B7 C7 B7 C7 B7 Em B7

VERSE:
Em                   C9       B7
   People ask me when I sing the blues
Em                      C7           B7
   How did I learn what method did I use
Am                            Em
   Though I will tell you how my friend
F#7b9                   B7
   It’s not a way I’d recommend
Em                          C9        B7
   You find a good love and treat her wrong
Em         Em7            C7         B7
   Then be sorry ‘bout it when she’s gone
Am                         Em
   You’ll say ‘come back’ she’ll refuse
F#7b9           B7                  Em     B7+5
   That’s how I learned to sing the blues
Em                Em7    C7      B7
   Now the people pay to hear my song
Em              Em7       C7        B7
   The mournful melody of love gone wrong
Am                                    Em
   And while the blues has brought me wealth
F#7b9                   B7
   I find I can’t sing nothin’ else
Em                 C9    B7
   I lost a love I can’t replace
Em                          C7      B7
   With every line I sing I see her face
Am                                 Em
   And though it’s not the way I’d choose
F#7b9            B7                 Em
   That’s how I learned to sing the blues

BRIDGE:
Am        Am7
  And at night
Am7           Am6               Am         Am7
   When other lovers hold their true loves tight
Am7                        Em
   I hold another but it’s just not right
                        C7    B7
   It’s only memories I crave
    Am     Am7
And in the dawn
Am7           Am6       Am           Am7
   Just for a moment I forget you’re gone
Am7             Am6             Em
   And reach to hold you in the cold grey light
Em
   But only find the feeling
Dbm7b5              B7
   That I’ll use to sing these blues

INSTRUMENTAL

Em C7 B7
Em C9 B7
Am Em 
F#7b9 B7 Em
B7+5
Em7 C9 B7
Em7 C9 B7
Am Em
F#7b9 B7 Em

VERSE:
Em                      C9      B7
   My advice while you have a choice
Em                      C9       B7
   Is do some exercises for your voice
Am               Em
   When you sing cry every word
F#7b9                       B7
   Flat the seventh and the third
Em              Em7     C7        B7
   And you can sound as if you’re sad
Em                                C9        B7
   Don’t be a fool and treat your good love bad
Am                              Em
   You will gain less than you lose
F#7b9            B7
   That’s how I learned to sing
F#7b9            B7
   That’s how I learned to sing
F#7b9            B7                 Em    Em6
   That’s how I learned to sing the blues