Three Oclock Blues tab by B. B. King
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In hopes of bringing the blues back:
Here's an old B.B. King classic, Three O'Clock Blues.
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Now here it is, three o'clock in the morning...
I've looked around me...
Goodbye, everybody...
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A guy feels lonely then...
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You can't do whatever you wanna do...
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You figure something you've done...
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You don't know what it is...
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Then you say to yourself...
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I go up on my feet...
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"It's hard for me to believe that at 66 years old, that my audience
would be as young as they are and to have as many people who seem
to like me as they do today." -----B.B. King
Three Oclock Blues tab