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Am I Blue

Words by Grant Clarke, Music by Harry Akst - 1929

Verse:
F	F7	Bb             C7	F             C7
F	F6	Am             E7	Am        Adim
Gm	Bbm          C7	F               Dm	G7           C7
F	F7	Bb             G7	C7
Chorus:
F	-	C9	-
F                D7	G7             C7	F              Cdim	C7
F	-	C9	-
F                D7	G7             C7	F              Bbm	F
Am	-	E7            Dm6	-              E7
-	-	Am          F#dim	Gm7        C7
F	-	C9	-
F                D7	G7             C7	F	-   (C7 to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verse:

I'm just a woman, alonely woman,  Waitin' on the weary shore.

I'm just a woman that's only human,  One you should be sorry for.

Got up this mornin' along about dawn,  Without a warnin',  I found he was gone.

Why should he do it?  How could he do it?  He never done it before.

 

Chorus:

Am I blue?  Am I blue?

Ain't these tears in these eyes tellin' you?

Am I blue?  You'd be too,

If each plan with your man done fell through.

Was a time I was his only one,

But now I'm the sad and lonely one,  "Lawdy,"

Was I gay? 'Til today,

Now he's gone and we're through,  Am I blue?

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Performer Links:

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Listen to Eddie Peabody perform "Am I Blue" on the plectrum banjo and Banjoline (mp3)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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