Lovesick Blues



(Irving Mills, Cliff Friend)

SOURCE: Bob Pfeffer

SOURCE'S SOURCE: Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers, 1928

COMMENTS: Later version: Hank Williams



TEXT:

C G7

I got a feelin' called the blues, since my mama said goodbye

G7 C C7

Lord I don't know what I'll do, all I do is sit and sigh, oh Lord

C7 F[E+1 F7[E7+1

That last long day we spent alone

C A7

I'm longin for her to come home

A7 D7[C7+2

She'd thrill me, fill me, with her kind of lovin'

G[E+3

Lord I never will forget

C

The way she called me sweet daddy

G7

'Twas such a beautiful dream

G7

I hate to think it's all over

E7

I've lost my heart it seems

F[E+1 F7[E7+1

I've grown so used to her somehow

C A7 D7[C7+2 G[E+3

I'm nobody's sugar papa now, it's awful when you're lonesome

C

You got them lovesick blues.



E7 a E7

Well, I'm in love, I'm in love with a beautiful gal

a

That's what's the matter with me

E7 a

I'm in love, I'm in love with a beautiful gal

D7[C7+2 G[E+3

But she don't care about me

G7

To make her love me I tried

C

Lord, I was sad and I cried

E7 a

But she just refused

D7[C7+2

But now my mama's gone away,

G[E+3

I've got them lovesick blues





Note: Oddly enough, this was written in 1922, and was a sleeper

for twenty-seven years, until Hank Williams sang it on the

Grand Old Opry. RG



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