Basically a Bb major blues
[Intro]
Bb7 Ab7 Bb7 Bb7 Eb9 Eb9 Bb7 Bb7 F9 Eb9 Bb7 |Bb7 F9|
[Verse]
Bb7
There's a Red House over yonder
Eb9 Bb7 Bb7
That's where my baby stays
Eb9
There's a Red House over yonder, baby
Bb7 Bb7
That's where my baby stays
F9 Eb9
Well, I ain't been home to see my baby,
Bb7 |Bb7 F9|
in ninety nine and one half days.
Bb7
Wait a minute something's wrong here
Eb9
The key won't unlock the door.
Bb7
Wait a minute something's wrong,
Eb9 Bb7 Bb7
Lord, have mercy, this key won't unlock this door,
(something's goin' on here.)
F9
I have a bad bad feeling
Eb9 Bb7
that my baby don't live here no more.
F9
That's all right, I still got my guitar
Look out now . . .
[Solo:] Bb major 12 bar blues...
[Outro]
Bb7 Eb9
Well I might as well uh, go on back down yonder
Bb7 Bb7
way back 'cross yonder hill
Eb9
I might as well go back over yonder
Bb7
way back over yonder 'cross the hill,
(That's where I came from.)
F9 Eb9 (hard stop)
'Cause if my baby don't love me no more,
Bb7 Ddim7 Eb9 Edim7 F9, E9 Bb7
I know her sister will!
Chords:
Bb7: 6x676x
Eb9: x65666
F9: x87888