Blues Get Off My Shoulder Chords

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Blues Get Off My Shoulder by Dee Clark is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, Bbm, Fm, Eb, Ebm, Bb, Bm, Db and Gb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Blues Get Off My Shoulder:Dee Clark. 
#109 on BB Hot 100 (bubbling Under) 
on ABNER Records in 1959. 

(Bass licks throughout song, as follows..) 
  
Intro: 
   #1.                      
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-4----------        -1-------------------| 
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   #3. 
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1-1-----3---| 
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Intro: F Bbm (x7) 
       (oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh..) 
#1. 
Fm        Bbm        Fm            Bbm 
There's a cold, cold feeling in my heart. 
Fm       Bbm            Fm    F 
And it's trying  to get cold..er. 
Bbm         Eb      Ebm                  F 
Please, oh, please, have pity on me..and blues, 
           Bbm 
get off my shoulder. 

#2. 
Bbm               F            Bbm        F 
You have ruined a perfect love affair and now  
       Bbm           F 
you're trying to get bolder. 
Bbm         Eb      Ebm                  F 
Please, oh, please, have pity on me..and blues, 
           Bbm 
get off my shoulder. 

Bridge: 
  Ebm 
I can't sleep at night, the tears keep falling.. 
                    Fm    Bb 
tears keep falling..down..own. 
   Ebm           Bm        Db Gb              Ebm 
My days could be brighter..my nights would be shorter.. 
F      Gb            F 
blues, quit hangin' around. 

#3. 
Bbm               F            Bbm        F 
You have ruined a perfect love affair and now  
       Bbm           F 
you're trying to get bolder. 
Bbm         Eb      Ebm                  F 
Please, oh, please, have pity on me..and blues, 
           Bbm 
get off my shoulder. 


OUTRO:LICK#1 (x5) 


A fifties smash from Kraziekhat. 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante