Skeeter Davis – Prescription For The Blues (Guitar)

Capo 2 Video Lesson
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Chords

[Intro] C* G C#7* C7 A#7* A7 D7 [Verse 1]
G7      C      G7     E7
All day long I wor-or-ry

A7        D7       G
All night long I'm blue

          C       G     E7
I feel so awfully lo-onesome

A7                      D7
   I don't know what to do
[Chorus]
    G                      G7
And so I ask you doctor to see if you can find

C                           C7
Something in your sachet to pacify my mind

G
Oh, doctor, doctor

A7            D7                G7
Write me a prescription for the blues

C              G7    D7
  I’ve got the blues
[Verse 2]
G      C        G    E7
Let me tell you do-octor

A7         D7  G7
Why I'm in misery

G      C     G7    E7
Once I had a lover

A7                  D7
  He went away from me
[Chorus]
  G                                               G7
I went to see the egyptian and the voodoo doctors too

     C
They shook their heads and told me

          C7
There was nothing they could do

    G
Oh, doctor, doctor

A7                    D7                G7    C  G7  D7
Why not write me a prescription for the blues
[Verse 3]
G           C      G   E7
Just like a little ba-aby

A7        D7      G
All night long, I cry

    G                           E7
Now doctor if you can't cur-ure me

A7                    D7
Why I just as soon to die
[Chorus]
    G
So, give me something poison

G7
Doctor won't you please

    C
And then I'll sign a paper saying

  C7
I die with heart disease

    G7
Oh, doctor, doctor

A7            D7                G7    C  G   C  G
Write me a prescription for the blues