Cocaine Blues Chords

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Cocaine Blues by David Bromberg is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E7, A7, D7, G, B7, C and C#dim. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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E
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  			Intro: 
E7    A7      D7      G 
G B7 C C#dim G E7 A7 D7 G 


       E7                                      A7 
I said come here mama don't you take me for no fool 
  D7                                G 
I wouldn't quit you woman while the weather's cool 
G           B7                C              C#dim 
Around your back door, honey, I will make my creep 
        G           E7        A7      D7     G 
Just as long as you earn your two and half a week 

      E7                                   A7 
Now I got a gal she works in a rich folks' yard 
    D7                             G 
She brings me meals, she brings me lard 
G             B7           C       C#dim 
She brings me meals, she brings me lard 
G              E7   A7         D7     G 
She brings me everything that she can steal 

Chorus 1: 
          E7          A7 
I call my Cora hey hey 
D7                                            G 
Along comes Sally with her nose all tore, the doctor says she can't sniff no more 
       E7                                        A7 
I said run here doctor, ringin' the bell there's women in the alley 
G          E7    A7      D7   G 
I'm simply wild about my good cocaine. 


E7                                                     A7 
You know the furniture man come to my door last Sunday morn' 
D7                                      G 
He asked me was my wife at home, I said no she's been long gone. 
            E7                                          A7 
And then he backed his truck right up to my door and he took everything I had 
    G                     E7                  A7      D7       G 
And carted on back to the furniture store I declare I did feel sad. 
E7                                             A7 
What in the world has anybody got to do with a furniture man? 
        D7                                 G 
If you got no dough to put up a show he'll take everything he can. 
      E7                                 A7 
He'll take everything from ugly plant, a skillet to a frying pan, 
         G                E7                    A7             D7        G 
If there ever was a devil without any horns, it must've been a furniture man 

Chorus 2:           
          E7           A7 
I call my Cora hey yeah 
D7                                            G 
Along comes Sally with her nose all tore, the doctor says she can't sniff no more 
        E7                                      A7 
He says cocaine's for horses, it's not for men, he says it's gonna kill me but he don't say when 
    G      E7    A7      D7     G 
I'm simply wild about my good cocaine. 


G B7 C C#dim G E7 A7 D7 G 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante