Cocaine Blues (Luke Jordan)

From the recording by David Bromberg
Album: My Own House
Web site: http://www.davidbromberg.net
Thanks to E. Hartman.


Intro:
E7 (020130@1)  A7 (x02020@1)    D7 (xx0212@1)    GG (320003@1)B7 C C#dim G E7 A7 D7 G


       E7 (020130@1)                                    A7I (x02020@1)said come here mama don't you take me for no fool
  D7 (xx0212@1)                              GI (320003@1)wouldn't quit you woman while the weather's cool
G (320003@1)         B7 (x21202@1)              C (x32010@1)            C#dimAround (3423xx@1)your back door, honey, I will make my creep
        G (320003@1)         E7 (020130@1)      A7 (x02020@1)    D7 (xx0212@1)   GJust (320003@1)as long as you earn your two and half a week

      E7 (020130@1)                                 A7Now (x02020@1)I got a gal she works in a rich folks' yard
    D7 (xx0212@1)                           GShe (320003@1)brings me meals, she brings me lard
G (320003@1)           B7 (x21202@1)         C (x32010@1)     C#dimShe (3423xx@1)brings me meals, she brings me lard
G (320003@1)            E7 (020130@1) A7 (x02020@1)       D7 (xx0212@1)   GShe (320003@1)brings me everything that she can steal

Chorus 1:
          E7 (020130@1)        A7I (x02020@1)call my Cora hey hey
D7 (xx0212@1)                                          GAlong (320003@1)comes Sally with her nose all tore, the doctor says she can't sniff no more
       E7 (020130@1)                                      A7I (x02020@1)said run here doctor, ringin' the bell there's women in the alley
G (320003@1)        E7 (020130@1)  A7 (x02020@1)    D7 (xx0212@1) GI'm (320003@1)simply wild about my good cocaine.


E7 (020130@1)                                                   A7You (x02020@1)know the furniture man come to my door last Sunday morn'
D7 (xx0212@1)                                    GHe (320003@1)asked me was my wife at home, I said no she's been long gone.
            E7 (020130@1)                                        A7And (x02020@1)then he backed his truck right up to my door and he took everything I had
    G (320003@1)                   E7 (020130@1)                A7 (x02020@1)    D7 (xx0212@1)     GAnd (320003@1)carted on back to the furniture store I declare I did feel sad.
E7 (020130@1)                                           A7What (x02020@1)in the world has anybody got to do with a furniture man?
        D7 (xx0212@1)                               GIf (320003@1)you got no dough to put up a show he'll take everything he can.
      E7 (020130@1)                               A7He'll (x02020@1)take everything from ugly plant, a skillet to a frying pan,
         G (320003@1)              E7 (020130@1)                  A7 (x02020@1)           D7 (xx0212@1)      GIf (320003@1)there ever was a devil without any horns, it must've been a furniture man

Chorus 2:          
          E7 (020130@1)         A7I (x02020@1)call my Cora hey yeah
D7 (xx0212@1)                                          GAlong (320003@1)comes Sally with her nose all tore, the doctor says she can't sniff no more
        E7 (020130@1)                                    A7He (x02020@1)says cocaine's for horses, it's not for men, he says it's gonna kill me but he don't say when
    G (320003@1)    E7 (020130@1)  A7 (x02020@1)    D7 (xx0212@1)   GI'm (320003@1)simply wild about my good cocaine.


G B7 C C#dim G E7 A7 D7 G

Notes: 
The opening is an eighth-note walk G-F#-F-E on the low E string, into the E7 chord.
It's played with an alternating bass, but only two bass notes per measure. 
The G turnaround is played like:
E-3-------------3
B-0-3-2-1-0-----0
G-0-4-3-2-0-----0
D-0-------------0
A-2---------2----
E-3-----------3--