Death Letter Blues

(The White Stripes version)

Words & Music:

Eddie "Son" House

(Tab of The White Stripes version from ultimate-guitar.com)

 

These 4 Figs are done over the open A chord

   Fig1      Fig2         Fig3         Fig4

E|--------|-------------|-------5-5-5|---------------------------|

D|--------|-------------|---------0-0|---------------------------|

A|--------|-3b-0--3-3-3-|-3--0-------|---------------------------|

E|--------|-0-(0)-0-0-0-|-0-(0)------|---5-5---3-3---2-2---1-1---|

A|-0----0-|-------------|------------|---------------------------|

E|---3b---|-------------|------------|-5-----3-----2-----1-----0-|

 

Chords (play with slide)

   A         D           E

E|-------------------------|

D|-------------------------|

A|-0--------/5----------/7-|

E|-0--------/5----------/7-|

A|-0--------/5----------/7-|

E|-0--------/5----------/7-|

 

INTRO:  Fig1 then Fig2 x4

 

A (with Fig1 and Fig2)

I got a letter this morning, what do you reckon it read?

It said, "The girl you love is dead."

D                                                 A   (Fig3 Fig1 Fig3)

I got a letter this morning what do you reckon it read?

     E            D                            A (Fig3 Fig1 Fig3)

Said, "Hurry, hurry, because the gal you love is dead."

 

Well, I packed up my suitcase, took off down the road.

When I got there she was laying on the cooling board.

Packed up my suitcase and I took off down the road.

                                                   (Fig4)

When I got there she was laying on the cooling board.

 

INSTRUMENTAL VERSE & INTRO REPEAT

 

It looked like ten thousand people standing around the burying ground.

I didn't know I loved her, 'til they began to let her down.

Looked like ten thousand, people standing around the burying ground.

I didn't know I loved her, 'til they began to let her down.

 

You know it's so hard to love someone that don't love you.

Don't look like satisfaction, don't care what you do.

So hard to love someone that don't love you.

Don't look like satisfaction, and don't care what you do.

 





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