Dyin Crapshooters Blues Cifras

Gm    3x033x
F+    1x322x
A+    x03221
C#+   x4322x
Bbdim xx232x
Adim  xx121x
Eb    xx134x
 
 
[Intro]
| Bbm Am | Bbm-Am-Gm |
 
[Verse 1]
Gm                          D7
Little Jesse was a gambler, night and day
                      Gm
Well, he used crooked cards and dice
                                     D7
Sinful guy, good hearted, but had no soul
                             Gm
Heart was hard and cold like ice
 
[Verse 2]
Gm                                 D7
Jesse was a wild reckless gambler, won a gang of change
                                            Gm
Although' a many gambler's heart he left in pain
         Gm
Began to spend and lose his money, began to be blue
D7                                               Gm
Sad and all alone, this heart had even turned to stone
 
[Verse 3]
     Gm                                D7
What broke Jesse's heart, while he was blue and all alone
                               Gm
Sweet Lorena had packed up and gone
                             D7
Police walked up and shot my friend Jesse down
                    Gm
Boy, I got to die today
 
[Pre Chorus]
         F+
He had a gang of crapshooters and gamblers at his bedside
                             Gm
Here are the words he had to say:
  Bbdim           Gm
I guess I ought to know
        Bbdim   Adim    Gm
Exactly how  I  want to go (How you wanna go, Jesse?)
 
[Chorus]
Gm
Eight crapshooters to be my pallbearers,
D7                         Gm
let them be veiled down in black
       Gm
I want nine men going to the graveyard, Bubba
    D7                Gm
And eight men comin'  back
 
         F+
I want a gang of gamblers gathered 'round my coffin-side
                           Gm
Crooked card planted on my hearse
F+         -       -       -          A+        -
Don't say the crapshooters will never grieve over me
   F                         A5 C#+
My life been a doggone curse
 
Gm
Send poker players to the graveyard,
D7                           Gm
dig my grave with the ace of spades
       Gm
I want twelve police's in my funeral march,
             D7                            Gm
High sheriff playin' blackjack, lead the parade
 
           F+
I want the judge and solicitor who jailed me fourteen times
              A+         Gm
put a pair of dice in my shoes (then what?)
Bb
Let a deck of cards be my tombstone, buddy
          F7                   Bb     A  G# Gm
I got the dyin’ crap-shooter's blues
 
Gm
Sixteen real good crapshooters,
                              D7
Sixteen bootleggers to sing a song
                   Gm
Sixteen racket men gamblin',
            D7                     Gm
Couple tend bar while I'm rollin' along
 
          Gm
He wanted 22 women out of the Hampton Hotel,
               D7
26 off-a South Bell
Gm
29 women out of North Atlanta, know,
             D7                 Gm
Little Jesse didn't pass out so swell
 
    Gm
His head was achin', heart was thumpin'
                                       Gm
Little Jesse went to hell bouncin' and jumpin'
                                          D7
Folks, don't be standin' 'round old Jesse cryin'
         G            G      Gm                     Gm    Eb
He wants everybody to do the Charleston whiles he's dyin’
 
Bb
One foot up, and a toenail dragging
                                  Bb
Throw my buddy Jesse in the hoodoo wagon
Gm                       Bb  A  Gm
Come here mama with that can of booze
             F          Bb          Gm
The Dyin Crapshooter's, leavin' the world
              F          Bb    A    Gm
The Dyin' Crapshooter's, goin' down slow
         Cm        F       Bb
With the Dyin' Crapshooter Blues!
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NOTES: Apparently Willie played this in this same key, but
With his 12 String tuned all the way down to A (Standard)!
That means he played the open Dm chord form as the tonic,
and Daddy Stovepipe teaches it in that form on Youtube.
That's an extreme tuning however, and I think that these
Gm voicings cover all the bases on the recording and play
well. Willie Alternates the bass note on the Gm from 1 to
b3rd quite a bit (from G to Bb played at 5th str 1st fret).
This makes the Bb chord just part an inversion of Gm but
He does seem to emphasize it as Bb major at times. F, A,
and C# augmented (+) are all the same chord, but the bass
notes/inversions do matter here
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