Familiar Blues
Status Quo
The Party Ain't Over Yet 2005


Bass guitar plays all inversions.



|F| |F| |F| |F| 

|F| |F| |F| |F| 

|F| |F| |F| |F| 

|F| |F| |Bb| |Bb| 

|Bb/F| |F| |Eb Bb/D| |C7|

|F| |F| |Bb| |Bb|

|Bb/F| |F| |Eb Bb/D| |C7| 

|C7|



    F
The more you criticize me
    Bb
the more I know I'm right
  Bb/F                F
I just cant stop this need for you
   Eb       Bb/D       C7
to help me through the night
    F
and though you treat me badly 
Bb
treat me like a slave
     Bb/F           F
sure no one would believe it
    Eb       Bb/D  C7
the way that you behave



    Bb
Sometimes I dare to wonder
          C
is there life after you
      Bb
could my heart stand the loneliness
      C
could my head see it through

and I say 



Bb/F
oo oo oo oo
F           C
oo oo oo oo oo
Bb/F
oo oo oo oo
F           C
oo oo oo oo oo



F
I thought that we were perfect
    Bb/F    
the best there's ever been
                 F
I would be your gypsy king
     Eb      Bb/D    C7
and you would be my queen
     F
but real life just ain't like that
    Bb/F
and so before to long
                    F
my sweet and happy melody
  Eb      Bb/D   C7
became a sadder song



And though the tune is different
that old familiar blues
there is nothing I would change in us
there is nothing I could lose
and I say 



oo oo oo oo
oo oo oo oo oo
oo oo oo oo
oo oo oo oo oo



|F| |F| |Bb/F| |Bb/F| 

|Bb/F| |F| |Eb Bb/D| |C7|

|F| |F| |Bb/F| |Bb/F| 

|Bb/F| |F| |Eb Bb/D| |C7|

|C7|


|Bb| |Bb| |F| |F|

|Bb| |Bb| |F| |F|



    Bb
And though the tune is different
     F
that old familiar blues
         Bb
there is nothing I would change in us
         C
there is nothing I could lose

and I say 


oo oo oo oo
oo oo oo oo oo
oo oo oo oo
oo oo oo oo oo etc.