High-Priced Blues

Words & Music:

Traditional American

 

Try sliding into the chords, i.e. Db to D; Ab7 to A7; etc.

 

D                                    D7

I'll tell you something, ain't no joke,

D                      D7

High cost of livin' is keepin' me broke.

 

CHORUS:

G7                           D

Prices goin' higher, 'way up higher,

                A7         G7          D    G7    D    A7

Prices goin' so high, what more can we do?

 

Walked in a meat market just about noon

Hear them hollerin', "Now the cow jumped over the moon."

 

CHORUS:

 

Johnny's gone to war, Jimmy's gone to sea,

But I tell you high prices is killin' me.

 

CHORUS:

 

Meat, Butter, and eggs gettin' higher still,

You don't even get go change out of a five-dollar bill.

 

CHORUS:  [last line is:]

Well, it's no disgrace to be poor, but it's a little unhandy for me.

 

The horses and the numbers; odds are still the same,

Looks like the prices would raise ten per cent on the game.

 

CHORUS:  [last line is:]

Prices goin' so high, I don't think I will work no more.