Am I Blue?
(original Ethel Waters'
version)
Words & Music by
Harry Aksy & Grant Clarke
VERSE:
F
F7
Bb
C7 F C7
I'm just a woman, a lonely woman waiting on the weary
shore.
F
F6
Am E7 Am Adim
I'm just a woman that's only human; one you should be sorry
for.
Gm
Bbm C7
Woke up this morning, along about dawn.
F Dm
G7
C7
Without a warning, I found he was gone.
F F7
Bb G7 C7
How could he do it?
Why should he do it? He
never done it before.
CHORUS:
F C9
Am I blue? Am
I blue?
F
A7 D7 G7 Db7 C7
F F6 Cdim C7
Ain't these tears, in these eyes tel-ling you?
F C9
Am I blue?
Why, you'd be, too,
F A7 D7 G7
Db7 C7 F Bb Bbm F
If each plan with your man done fell through.
Am
E7
Dm6 E7
There was a time when I was his only one.
E7
Am F#dim
Gm7 C7
But, now I'm the sad and lonely one...lone-ly...
F C9
Was I gay?
Until todayÉ
F A7 D7 G7 Db7 C7 F C7
Now, he's gone, and we're through. Am-- I-- blue?
[freely
over verse chords]
I
know it, he's in Chicago and I'm down here in Birmingham.
Trying
to get the money to go and find my honey.
I
am, yes, indeed I am.
I've
got the blues in my heart and my shoes want to start
And
I'm in a jam, terrible jam.
[freely
over chorus chords]
Oh,
don't ask me, "Am I blue?" Why do
you ask me, "Am I blue?"
Ain't
these tears, in these eyes telling you?
How
can you ask me, "Am I blue?" Why
wouldn't you be, too?
If
each plan with your man has done fell through.
Don't
I remember the time when I was his only one?
But
look at me, now, I'm the sad and lonely one...
Oh,
didn't I used to be gay? Oh, until
today...
Now,
he's gone, and we're through.
Lord, am I blue?