January A Little Blues and a Little Bluegrass normanskillstrummers.com Contents 1. A Man of Constant Sorrow 2. Ain’t No Ash Will Burn 3. Blues Like Midnight 4. Blues Stay Away From Me 5. Come On In My Kitchen 6. Crawdad Hole 7. Cripple Creek 8. Dark Hollow 9. Drifting Too Far From the Shore 10. Fishin’ Blues 11. Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad 12. Goin’ Up the Country 13. How Long Blues 14. I Know You Rider 15. I’ll Fly Away 16. In The Pines 17. In The Sweet By and By 18. I’ve Endured 19. Kansas City 20. Kitty Waltz 21. Midnight Special 22. Need a Little Sugar In My Bowl 23. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out 24. Old Joe Clark 25. Rock and Gravel Blues 26. San Francisco Bay Blues 27. St. Louis Blues 28. Sweet Home Chicago 29. Tennessee Stud 30. Tennessee Waltz 31. The Separation Blues 32. The Wabash Cannonball 33. Trouble In Mind 34. Truckin’ My Blues Away 35. Uncloudy Day 36. When The Bees Are In The Hive 37. Wildwood Flower 38. Will The Circle Be Unbroken 39. Working Man Blues 40. Worried Man Blues A Man of Constant Sorrow (trad.) (first published by Dick Burnett in 1913) Intro: [G] [C] [D] [C] [G] ([C] Constant [D] sorrow [C] through his [G] days) [G] I am the man of [G7] constant [C] sorrow I've seen [D7] trouble [C] all my [G] days [G] I bid farewell to [G7] old Ken- [C] tucky The place where [D7] I was [C] born and [G] raised (The [C] place where [D7] he was [C] born and [G] raised) [G] [C] [D] [C] [G] [G] For six long years, [G7] I've been in [C] trouble No pleasure [D7] here on [C] earth I [G] find [G] For in this world, [G7] I'm bound to [C] ramble I have no [D7] friends to [C] help me [G] now (He [C] has no [D7] friends to [C] help him [G] now) [G] [C] [D] [C] [G] [G] You can bury me in [G7] some deep [C] valley For many [D7] years where [C] I'll be [G] laid [G] And you may learn [G7] to love an- [C] other While I am [D7] sleeping [C] in my [G] grave [G] Hey, it's fair thee well [G7] my old true [C] lover I never ex- [D7] pect to [C] see you a- [G] gain [G] Oh, I'm bound to ride [G7] that northern [C] railroad Perhaps I'll [D7] die up- [C] on this [G] train (Perhaps he'll [D7] die up- [C] on this [G] train) [G] [C] [D] [C] [G] [G] Maybe your friends think [G7] I'm just a [C] stranger My face you'll [D7] never [C] see no [G] more [G] But, there is one promise [G7] that is [C] given I'll meet you [D7] on God's [C] golden [G] shore (He'll [C] meet you [D7] on God's [C] golden [G] shore) G C D N K 1 Ain’t No Ash Will Burn (3/4) Walt Aldridge Chorus: [C] Love is a [F] precious [G] thing I'm [C] told [C] Burns just like [F] West [G] Virginia [C] coal [C] But when the [F] fire dies [G] down, it's [Am] cold There [F] ain't no [G] ash will [C] burn [C] I have seen [F] snow that [G] fell in [C] May And [C] I have seen [F] rain on [G] cloudless [C] days Some things are [F] always [G] bound to [Am] change There [F] ain't no [G] ash will [C] burn [C] I have seen [F] lives [G] re-ar- [C] ranged I [C] have seen [F] friendships [G] wax and [C] wane Some things in [F] life are [G] sure to [Am] change There [F] ain't no [G] ash will [C] burn C Chorus: Instrumental: /C F G C / C F G C/ / C F G Am / F G C/ [C] You say this [F] life is [G] not your [C] lot F I [C] can't be [F] something [G] that I'm [C] not Can't stoke a [F] fire that [G] we ain't [Am] got And there [F] ain't no [G] ash will [C] burn G Chorus: [C] In every [F] life there [G] comes a [C] time [C] Where there are [F] no more [G] tears to [C] cry a We must leave [F] someone [G] dear [Am] behind Cause there [F] ain't no [G] ash will [C] burn Chorus: [C] There is one [F] lesson I [G] have [Am] learned There [F] ain't no [G] ash will [C] burn (X 3) 2 Blues Like Midnight – Jimmie Rogers, c. 1927 (Blue Yodel #6) (Jerry Lee Lewis, others) [C] She left me this morning Midnight was turning day [C7] [F] She left me this morning Midnight turning [C] day I didn't [G7] have no blues Until my good gal [C] went away. [C] I got the blues like midnight C The moon shining bright as day [C7] [F] I got the blues like midnight Oh, The moon shines bright as [C] day I [G7] wish a Tornado F Would blow my blues [C] away. Instrumental: (Play through one verse) N [C] When a man is down and out You women don't want him round [C7] [F] When a man is down You women don't want him round But when [G7] he's got money He's the sweetest thing [C] in town. [C] One of these mornings I'm gonna leave this town [C7] [F] One of these mornings I'm gonna leave this [C] town 'Cause you [G7] triflin' women Really keep a good man [C] down 3 Blues Stay Away From Me A. Delmore, R. Delmore, W. Raney, H. Glover, 1949 [C] Blues - [F7] stay away from [C] me [C7] [F7] Blues - why don't you let me [C] be [C] Don't know [G7] why - you keep on haunting [C] me [C] Love - [F7] was never meant for [C] me [C7] [F7] True love - was never meant for [C] me [C] Seems some- [G7] how - we never can a- [C] gree [C] Life - is [F7] full of miser- [C] y [C7] [F7] Dreams - are like a memo- [C] ry [C] Bringing [G7] back - your love that used to [C] be Instrumental: (play through one verse) [C] Tears - [F7] so many I can't [C] see [C7] [F7] Years - don't mean a thing to [C] me [C] Time goes [G7] by - and still I can't be [C] free [C] Time goes [G7] by - and still I can't be [C] free C M J N 4 Come On In My Kitchen Robert Johnson, 1937 (Johnny Winter, George Harrison, Leon Russell, Hot Tuna, Eric Clapton, many others) [G] You better come on in my [D] kitchen [C] Hey, it's goin' to be rainin' [G] outdoors Ah, the woman I [G] love, took from my best friend Some joker got [C] lucky, stole her back [Eb] again You better [G] come on in my [D] kitchen It's [C] goin' to be rainin' [G] outdoors Ah-ah, she's [G] gone, I know she won't come back I've taken the last [C] nickel out of her notion [Eb] sack You better [G] come on in my [D] kitchen It's [C] goin' to be rainin' [G] outdoors There's a cold wind [G] blowin’, leaves tremblin' on the trees, Don't you know that that [C] good girl, yeah she's leaving [Eb] me. You better [G] come on in my [D] kitchen Yes, it's [C] going to be rainin' [G] outdoors Instrumental: play through verse twice When a woman gets in [G] trouble, everybody throws her down Looking for her good [C] friend, none can be [Eb] found You better [G] come on in my [D] kitchen It's [C] going to be rainin' [G] outdoors Winter time's [G] comin', it's gonna be slow You can't make the [C] winter, babe, that's dry long [Eb] so You better [G] come on in my [D] kitchen 'Cause it's [C] going to be rainin' [G] outdoors Mama's dead and [G] gone, father’s nowheres to be found, I ain't got no- [C] body, to love and care for [Eb] me You better [G] come on into my [D] kitchen, Yes, it's [C] going to be raining out- [G] doors Yes, it's [C] going to be raining out- [G] doors Yes, it's [C] going to be raining out- [G] doors C G D Y 5 Crawdad Hole (Traditional, first recorded by Honeyboy and Sassafras, 1929, originating in the southern United States and first published in a collection of songs in 1917 by Cecil Sharp. This song is apparently a variation of an older traditional work, 'Sweet Thing', which is of African-American origins.) Intro: Play through one verse: [G] [G][D7] [G][G7] [C][C7] [G][D7][G] (G) You get a line and I'll get a pole, Honey. (G) You get a line and I'll get a pole, (D7) Babe. (G) You get a line and (G7) I'll get a pole, (C) We'll go fishin' in the (C7) crawdad hole, (G) Honey, (D7) Baby (G) mine. G (G) Sittin' on the bank 'til my feet get cold, Honey. (G) Sittin' on the bank 'til my feet get cold, (D7) babe.