Bruce Cockburn – The Blues Got The World (Guitar Live)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)

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"The Blues Got The World..." (Cockburn) From "Night Vision" (1973) Tuned down one half-step (Eb/Ab/Db/Gb/Bb/Eb) Piedmont-style fingerpicking in C. The main riff is a constant hammer-on and pull-off of the 6th note(A)against the C chord at G-string second fret, which bluesily clashes with the pinkie G on the high e-string. chord shapes: C: x32013 C6: x3x213 F: 1x3211 F7: 1x3231 G7: 3x3x3x C#9: x43444 C9: x32333 main fingerpicking pattern:

E|-----3--3--3---|---3--------------|
B|--1----------1-|-----1-----1---1--|
G|-----2-----2---|-----2p0----2p0---|
D|---------------|------------------|
A|-3------3------|-3-------3--------|
E|---------------|------------------|

chromatic G7 turnaround at end of verses:

E|-----------|
B|-5-4-3-3---|
G|---------0-|
D|-5-4---3---|
A|-0---------|
E|-----3-----|

Outro lick into those ending 9th chords:

E|---0---0-------------------4-3-|
B|-----4---1-----------------4-3-|
G|-----------3p2p0---0-------4-3-|
D|-----------------2---1h2---3-2-|
A|-3-----------------------3-4-3-|
E|-------------------------------|

----------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] C C6 C C6 [Verse]

   C
I been down to Parliament, I been in school,

   C
I been in jail to learn the Golden Rule,

 F           F7                                          C
been to the workhouse, served my time in those hallowed halls,

     G7                                                  C
the only thing I know is the blues got the world by the balls.

C C6 C C6 [Verse]

   C
I been to the tundra and the mountain too,

   C
I been in Paris, doing what the Frenchmen do,

   F       F7                                 C
I been in Boston where the buildings grow so tall,

 G7                                                C
everywhere you go, the blues got the world by the balls.

[mouth trumpet solo] C C6 C C6 F F7 C C6 G7 C C6 [Verse]

         C
You can catch 'em from the preacher or from the poolshark,

         C
you can find them in the grammar of the socialite's remark,

    F           F7                                C
or down in the washroom, you can read 'em on the wall,

 G7                                                  C
everywhere you look, the blues got the world by the balls,

         G7                                                  N.C.
I said, everywhere you look, the blues got the world by the balls.

[Outro] G7 C#9 C9