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Limehouse Blues

Words by Douglas Forber, Music by Philip Braham - 1922

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
D	-	-	-
F#m	G#7(b5) F#m	-	A7
D7	G	F#7	Bm
D	-	-           Gm	D
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
Bb9	-	G9	-
F	A7         Dm	G7	C7
Bb9	-	G7	-
F          D7	Gm	Bbm6     C7	F  (to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

Song is played Verse, Chorus, Chorus, Verse, Chorus.

Tip: Each bass note gets one beat.

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Verse:

In Lime -house Where O -ri -en -tails love to play

In Lime -house Where you can hear those blues all day

And they seem all a -round Like a -long, long sigh

Queer sob sound Oh Hon -ey Lamb they seem to cry.

 

Chorus:

Oh! Lime -house kid Oh! Oh! Oh! Lime -house kid Go -ing the way that the rest of them did

Poor brok -en blos -som and no -bod -y's child Haunt -ing and taunt -ing you're just kind o' wild

Oh! Oh! Oh! Lime -house blues I've the real Lime -house blues Can't seem to shake off those sad Chin -a blues

Rings on your fin -gers and tears for your crown That is the sto -ry of old Chin -a -town.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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