Sonny Boy Acordes

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            Sonny Boy – Randy Newman
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Written by: Randy Newman
From: “Dark Matter” (2017)
 
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
 
Capo: 3rd fret
Play: C
Key: Eb (+ several key changes)
 
For chords in original key, transpose +3 (and "use flats")
 
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[Intro]
C
   It's me comin' at you
C7
  From the land beyond
F
  I'm up here in heaven
Fm
  Where I belong
C
 I'm gonna yell you my story
A7
 About a man who's down in hell
D7
 He ain't up here anyway
G7
 As far as I can tell
C
 This man stole my name
C7
 He stole my soul
F
 They're so holy up here
                Fm
They don't understand, but he even tried to steal my jellyroll
C                    A7
  So here it is, my story
                    D7 D7 D7
Here it is from the top
 
[Verse 1]
G                     C      C7
 My name is Sonny Boy Williamson
G/D          E7/B     A7    D7
 I come from Jackson, Tennessee
G        G/F       C     Cm
 Being a man named Sonny Boy
      G/D    E7            A7          D7
Might bother you, it never bothered me none
 
[Verse 2]
G                      C        C7
My mother loved me, my wife did too
G/D      E7/B          A7         D7
 I had a dream and the dream come true
G             G/F            C      Cm
 I wrote some songs that the people knew
           G/D     E7                 A7     D7
Like "Good Morning School Girl" and "Jackson Blue"
 
[Bridge]
Em                      C
 Around the time of the great migration
    G/D                             E7
The blues run up the river, spread across the nation
A7
 I run up with 'em caused a great sensation
        D7              Em  Fdim7   D/F#
Selling biscuits on the radio in Chicago
Em                      C
 Out on the Westside to see the sights
G/D                      E7
 Turned a corner, see my name in lights
A7
 Said I'd been playin' there for 14 nights
D7
 This I had to see
 
[Link]
G                          C
 This big old ugly cat was on the stage
A7               D7
 Twice my size, about my age
B7                E7
Played six songs, five were mine
     A7                      D7
If I said he was good I'd be lyin'
                            (break)
              G                                 C7
Then he says "What's my name?", the crowd says "Sonny Boy!"
         A7                          D7
He says "What's my name?" , they go "Sonny Boy!"
             B7                        N.C.
And he says "What's my name?", I said "Hold it,
 
[Verse 3]
E                     A      A7
 My name is Sonny Boy Williamson
E/B           C#7      F#7   B7
 The one from Jackson, Tennessee
E               E7
 Don't know who you are
   A         Am
Or where you come from
    E              C#7
But one thing I do know
F#7       B7
You ain't me, son."
 
[Bridge]
C#m                     A7
 Looked in his eyes and they was red
           E/B               E7
As was the rangtang hair dye all over his head
F#7
Scared me so bad I ran outside
B7
 Looked for a place to hide
Em                          C
 Run 'round a corner, smack into a robbery
          G/D                     E7
They were shootin' each other but they hit me
A7
 Next thing I know I came up here
       D7           C#aug D7
In the middle of my 34th  year
                         (break)
 
[Chorus]
            Gm   A7      D7  Gm
Now I'm the only bluesman in heaven
Cm                   Gm
 It makes me kind of sad
Ab           D7  Gm
 I know only one who dies so young
A7                       D7
 Didn't have the time to do nothing bad
 
[Bridge]
       Gm        A7               D        D7
As for Sonny Boy Two, the man who stole my name
D7             G7     Cm
 He went on to glory, fortune and fame
E7                        A7
 He's the one who went to England
         Dm
Tried to teach those English boys the blues
        F                  E
He said what do I have to lose?
         E
Well, it killed him, yeah, it killed him
       (break)
 
[Chorus]
        Am   B7      E7  Am
I'm the only bluesman in heaven
Dm                     Am
 And I'm lonely as can be
Bm               E
 Lord, if you're listening
Am       Am/G
 Hear my plea
F#7        B7
 Send up a bluesman
   E                   E7
To play the blues with me
 
[Coda]
A
 This is Sonny Boy Williamson
D7
 Number One
A/E       E
That's my story
    A
I'm done
X