Doc Watson – Mississippi Heavy Water Blues (Guitar Acoustic Tab)
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Title: Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
Artist: Doc Watson
Author and Copyright: MississippiHans (arr.+tab.)
Play bass quarters with your right-hand thumb and insert eighths. Eighths are marked "+".
Play with a "swinging (triplet) feel". The chord names above the tab lines indicate the left-hand position.
Play the A-long and A6 chords with half bar over strings 1-4. Emphasize the melody notes.
[Verse]
A-long + + + + + + + + + + + Am + + + E|-5------5-----2-----------|-5-----5-p2--------------|----5-----5--2-p0--------|-2-p0--------------| B|-----------------5--------|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------1-h2--------| G|-----2-----2-----------2--|----2-----------2-----2--|----------------------2--|-------------2-----| D|--------2-----------2-----|-------2-----------2-----|-------2-----------------|-------2--------2--| A|-0------------0-----------|-0-----------0-----------|-0-----------0-----------|-0-----------0-----| E|--------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------0-----|-------------------| [Chorus] A6 + + + E + + + A + A6 Upstrokes E|------2-------2---------------|------0-------0---------------|------------------|-----2---2---2---| B|-----------------2------------|-----------------2---p0-------|-2a---------------|-----2---2---2---| G|----------------------2-------|------------------------------|-2a---------------|-----2---2---2---| D|---------2---------------2----|---------2---------------2----|-2a---------------|-----2---2---2---| A|-0---------------0------------|------------------------------|-0a---------------|-0---------------| E|------------------------------|-0---------------0------------|-----0--0h2---0---|-----------------| Thats why I'm crying Miss'ippi heavy water blues.
[Lyrics]
I was walking down the levee with my head hanging low.
Looking for my woman, but she ain't here no more.
I'm sitting here looking, at all of this mud,
My girl got washed away in that Mississippi flood.
I hope she come back, some day kind and true,
Ain't no one satisfy her like her sweet papa do.
I'm in Mississippi, with mud all in my shoes,
My girl's in Louisiana with those high water blues.
Nothing but muddy water, as far as I can see,
I need my sweet mama to shake that thing with me.
Listen here you men, one more thing I'd like to say,
Ain't no womens out here, for they all got washed away.
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| a Arpeggio: play all notes in the chord harp-like in fast sequence
| h Hammer-on
| p Pull-off
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