St. Roch Blues Chords
St. Roch Blues by Hurray For The Riff Raff is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords C, Db, D, Em, G and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C C Db D D Db C C Db D D Db C C Em D
Verso 1:
D G Am
There must be somewhere in this whole world
D G Am
There must be somewhere in this whole world
C D C D
'Cause I keep on trying, I keep on trying
C D G
I keep on trying, I keep on trying!
Am
Oooh, oooh, oooh
Verso 2:D G Am
Bullets are flying from the young man's hands
D G Am
People are dying, no one understands
C D C D
And I keep on crying, I keep on crying
C D G
I keep on crying, I keep on crying
Am
Oooh, oooh, oooh
G Am
Oooooooooh, Oooh, oooh, oooh
G Am
Oooooooooh, oooh, ooh Oooh, oooh, oooh
Verso 3:
D G
Baby, please don't go
Am
Down to New Orleans
D G
'Cause you don't know
Am
The things that I've seen
C D C D
Them bullets are flying, bullets are flying
C D G C G
Bullets are flying, Bullets are fly-y-y-y-y-ing
Am
Oooh, oooh, oooh
Verso 4:
Am D G
Got the St. Roch Blues
Am
Down in my soul
D G
I've seen so many
Am
Of my good friends go
C D C D
And it won't be long, it won't be long
C D G
It won't be long, it won't be long
G
'Till I go
G Am
Oooooooooh, Oooh, oooh, oooh
G Am
Oooooooooh, oooh, ooh Oooh, oooh, oooh
G
Ooooooooh