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How Long by Leroy Carr
How Long
Tuning: E A D G B E
[Intro]
E E7 A A7 E B7 E
E E7
How long, baby how long,
A A7
Has that evening train been gone?
E B7 E
How long, how how long, baby how long?
E E7
Went to the station, didn't see no train.
A A7
Down in my heart, I have an aching pain.
E B7 E
How long, how how long, baby how long?
E E7
I feel disgusted, I feel so bad
A A7
Thinking 'bout the good time that I once had had.
E B7 E
How long, how how long, baby how long?
E E7
I could see the green grass growing on the hill;
A A7
I ain't seen no greenback on a dollar bill.
E B7 E
How long, how how long, baby how long?
E E7
You're gonna be sorry you feel so blue.
A A7
When you want me, baby, I declare I want, want you.
E B7 E
How long, how how long, baby how long?
[Instrumental]
(verse chords)
E E7
Don't have no money for to ride the train.
A A7
I would ride the rugs, baby, to be with you again.
E B7 E
How long, how how long, baby how long?
E E7
How long, baby how long
A A7
Must I keep my, my watching point?
E B7 E
How long, how how long, baby how long?
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version 2
Key: Eb
Capo: 6
Shuffle feel--can add blues shuffle: ex. A to A6
[Intro]
A A A A A
A A A7 A7 A7
A7 A7 D7 D7 D7
D7 D7 D7 D7 D7
D7 D7 A7 A7 A7
A7 E7 E7 E7 E7
E7 E7 A A7 A7
[Intro Chorus]
A7 D7
How long, Babe7, how long has that evening train been gone
D A7 A7 E7 A7
How long how long baby how long
[Verse 1]
A A7
Yeah, and I stood at the station, watch my baby leaving town
D D7
Feeling disgusted, nowhere could peace be found
[Chorus]
A E7 A A7
How long, how how long, baby how long?
[Verse 2]
A A7
I can hear the whistle blowing, but I can’t see no train
D D7
And it’s deep down in my heart baby, there lies an aching pain
[Chorus]
A E7 A A7
How long, how how long, baby how long?
[Verse 3]
A A7
Sometimes I feel so disgustin' and I feel so blue
D D7
That I hardly know what in this world baby just to do
[Chorus]
A E7 A A7
How long, how how long, baby how long?
[Verse 4]
A A7
And if I could holler, like I was a mountain train
D D7
I'd go up on the mountain and I'd call my baby back
[Chorus]
A E7 A A7
How long, how how long, baby how long?
[Verse 5]
A A7
And someday you gonna be sorry that you done me wrong
D D7
But it will be too late, I will be gone
[Chorus]
A7 E7 A7
For so long, so long, baby so long?
[Verse 6]
A A7
My mind gets a ramblin', I feel so bad
D7 D7
Thinkin' about the bad luck that I have had
[Chorus]
A7 E7 A7
For how long, how, how long, baby how long?
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