Worried Man Blues
From The Giant Harmonica Fakebook
key of G
G
6 7 7 7 -8 8
It takes a wor-ried man
8 8 8 8 -8 7
to sing a wor-ried song,
C
7 -6 7 7 7 7
It takes a wor-ried man
G
7 7 -8 7 -6 6
to sing a wor-ried song,
6 7 7 7 -8 8
It takes a wor-ried man
8 8 8 8 -8 7
to sing a wor-ried song,
D7
7 -7 7 -8
I'm wor-ried now,
G
-8 -8 8 -8 7 -6 7
but I won't be wor-ried long.
verse 2
I went across the river, and I lay down to sleep,
When I woke up, had shackles on my feet. (3)
verse 3
Twenty-nine links of chain around my leg,
And on each link, an initial of my name. (3)
verse 4
I asked that judge, tell me, what's goona be my fine?
Twenty-one years on the Rocky Mountain line. (3)
verse 5
Twenty-one years to pay my awful crime,
Twenty-one years-but I got ninety-nine. (3)
verse 6
The train arrived twenty-one coaches long,
The girl I love is on that train and gone. (3)
verse 7
I looked down the track as far as I could see,
Little bitty hand was waving after me. (3)
verse 8
If anyone should ask you, who composed this song,
Tell him was I, and I sing it all day long. (3)