Key: C
Introduction:
C F
Livin? and a-workin? in the city, I thought I was a big girl
G C
Oh, I felt so smart, and my whole life I could choose
F
So, then smarty found herself a city-guy who one night said he loves her
G C
And the next night he leaves her sittin? with a bad case of the blues
C F Dm
Yo-de-lay-dee-hee-hee-hee-hee, ha-a-ha
G C G
If I really was a smart girl, I could turn him loose
C F Dm
Yo-de-lay-dee-hee-hee-hee-hoo, ha-a-ha
G C
Instead of sittin? and a-cryin? with a bad case of the blues
Solo
C F
I took myself out to the country to see my mother
G C
She said, ?What no-good man has got my lovin? little child?s heart sore?
F
I said, ?Momma, he tells me that he loves me and then he?s out with another
G C
And he?s got me right down to the last square on the checkerboard.?
C F Dm
Yo-de-lay-dee-hee-hee-hee-hee, ha-a-ha
G C G
Little country girl?s done got hooked on a barbed wire love
C F Dm
Yo-de-lay-dee-hee-hoo-hoo-hoo, ha-a-ha
G C
And she can?t get loose from this bad case of the blues
Outro
G C
And she can?t get loose from this bad case of the blues