Catfish Blues (plus "Two Trains Runnin'")

Words & Music by:

Skip James & Muddy Waters

(This version by Jimi Hendrix/Transcribed by Nathan Manning)

 

tune down 1/2 step

h- hammeron       b-bend            p-pull off  *-trill     x-mute strings

/-slide up        \-slide down      r-release bend          g-ghost bend

 

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                                  Well I wish

 

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              I was a catfish

 

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  swimming in, Lord                                 the deep blue

 

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  sea                          I have, ah          all you pretty womans

 

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                                        fishin after me

 

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          fishin after me                                  fishin after me

 

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                      yeah!                Oh yeah!

 

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                   Oh yeah!                             Oh yeah!

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                                                     Oh yeah

 

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                                                 Yeah!

 

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  Well I went down                                               my girl

 

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 friend's house,                          an' I  sat down Lord     on her

 

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 front step.                               But she said, ah    come in now,

 

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 Jimi                            my husband just left,

 

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                ah, just now         left                          Whoa yeah!

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                                Oh, yeah!

 

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                                                         Guitar Solo

 

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