When Baby Gets The Blues Chords

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When Baby Gets The Blues by Jerry Lee Lewis is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G7, F and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
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C                                     G7 
For months she's a perfect wife and a mother 
                                          C 
You'd never dream that things could go so wrong 
                                             
But like a cloud across the skies  
          F 
I see the sadness fill her eyes 
     G7                                 C 
Then one day I'll come in and she'll be gone 

     F                                  C 
When baby gets the blues my world turns over 
            D7                                           G7 
While she's out somewhere with her bright lights and her booze 
          C                                   F 
Until the day she comes back home ashamed and sober 
               G7                         C 
My world stops turning when baby gets the blues 

                                       G7 
As long as she has me I know I'll keep forgiving 
                                           C 
Though I'm afraid of how much I'll someday lose 
                                                F 
I just can't tell you what a happy world that I live in 
               G7                               C 
In between the times that my baby gets them ol' blues 

     F                                  C 
When baby gets the blues my world turns over 
            D7                                           G7 
While she's out somewhere with her bright lights and her booze 
          C                                   F 
Until the day she comes back home ashamed and sober 
         G7                            C 
My world turns over when baby gets the blues 

         G7                            C 
My world turns over when baby gets the blues 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

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