4x E- | | -2-0-0- | | ---------0- C- | | -3-0-0- | | ---------0- F- | | -2-2-2- | | ---------1- E- | | ------- | | ---------2- G- | | ------- | | -3-2-0---2- C- | | ------- | | -------3-2- F E D9 D# G# E-------0------------- C-------0------------- F-4--3--1-----2----7-- E-5--4--2-----3----8-- G-5--4--2-----3----8-- C-5--4--2-----3----8-- i just found me a bottle of blues some strange comfort for a soul to soothe ain't it hard ain't it hard, to want somebody who doesn't want you and i've been waiting for a year, a day some strange weather must be blowin' my way cause i got no mind to go or to stay, or be left behind F5 E5 holdin' hands with an impotent dream F5 E5 in a brothel of fake energy F5 G#5 put a nickel in the graveyard machine D5 G#5 i get higher and lower D5 G#5 i get higher and lower D5 D#5 D5 like a tired soldier with nothin' to shoot F5 D5 C5 and nowhere to lose this bottle of blues egos drone and pose alone like black balloons all banged and blown on a backwoods river the infidels shiver in the stench of belief i tell my momma i'm a hundred years late i'm over the rails and out of the race and the crippled psalms of an age that won't thaw are ringing in my ears holdin' hands with an impotent dream in a brothel of fake energy put a nickel in the graveyard machine i get higher and lower i get higher and lower like a tired soldier with nothin' to shoot and nowhere dreams it's a.. bottle of blues (repeat first verse) holdin' hands with an impotent dream in a brothel of fake energy put a nickel in the graveyard machine i get higher and lower i get higher and lower like a tired soldier with nothin' to shoot and nowhere dreams it's a.. bottle of blues bottle of blues