Thats How I Learned To Sing The Blues

C7 B7 C7 B7 C7 B7 Em B7 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 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 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 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