Grateful Dead – Us Blues (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro]
                       A               A
e|---------------------------------------|
B|---------------------2-2-------------2-|
G|---------------------2-2-------------2-|
D|---------------------2-2-------------2-|
A|---------2/4-2-0-----0-0-2/4-2-0-----0-|
E|-0-2-0-----------2-0------------2-0----|  x2
[Verse 1]
A
Red and white, blue suede shoes

      A7
I'm Uncle Sam, how do you do?

 D
Gimme five, I'm still alive

                    E             B E
Ain't no luck, I learned to duck

[Fill]
(Guitar)
e|-----------------------|
B|-9-7--------9----------|
G|-----9-6----9----------|
D|---------9--9----------|
A|------------7----------|
E|-----------------------|

(Bass)
D|-----------------------|
D|-----------------------|
A|-----------7-----------|
E|-0-4-5-6-7-------------|
[Verse 2]
A
Check my pulse, it don't change

  A7             A
Stay seventy-two come shine or rain

D
Wave the flag, pop the bag

                E            B E
Rock the boat, skin the goat
[Fill] [Chorus]
 B                                E7
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high

 B                                   E7
Summertime done, come and gone, my oh my
[Verse 3]
 A
I'm Uncle Sam, that's who I am

      A7               A
Been hidin' out in a rock and roll band

 D
Shake the hand that shook the hand

                     E          B E
Of P.T. Barnum and Charlie Chan
[Fill] [Verse 4]
 A
Shine your shoes, light your fuse

    A7      A
Can you use them ol' U.S. Blues?

 D
I'll drink your health, share your wealth

                 E             B E
Run your life, steal your wife
[Fill] [Chorus]
 B                                E7
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high

 B                                    E7
Summertime done, come and gone, my oh my
[Solo over verse] [Verse 5]
 A
Back to back, chicken shack

      A7    A
Son of a gun, better change your act

 D
We're all confused, what's to lose?

                             E                 B E
You can call this song the United States Blues
[Fill] [Chorus]
 B                                E7
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high

 B                                    E7
Summertime done, come and gone, my oh my

 B                                    E7
Summertime done, come and gone, my oh my

 E7
My my, my my, my oh my, oh my

 B                                    E7
Summertime done, come and gone, my oh my