Mt Sad Blues
Copyrighted by:  Verne Garrison
July 15, 2008-Valley Park, Mo.

Banjo tuned to E(5th string G#)
Played in Key of E
Moderate tempo

Mt. Sad Blues
by: Lake Fork Verne

  E 	  	             A 	      
Rooster crowing on the fence row
                              E
I hope he has some pretty good news
                               B7
He is telling us everything he knows
                        E
And I got the old Mt Sad Blues

                             A
Hes saying that he hasnt been fed
                         E
I guess he didnt get the news
                           B7
Dont care if he is a Rhode Island Red
                           E
Cause I got the old Mt Sad Blues

                                 A
Old Mt Sad, its a tough piece of land
                           E
Does its best to beat a man down
                                  B7
Slippery clay when wet, dry-- its blowing sand
                                   E
Mt Sad Blues, they just keep comin around

                                A
Just when you think you have it whipped
                                    E
It will fool you, get you stuck in a draw
                             B7
Stalk you, waiting for you to slip
                          E
Oh Mt Sad Blues, same old saw


                                     A
Yeah, just when you think you know it all
                                  E
It will prod you and spit in your eye
                                      B7
Doing your best, hopin for a crop in the fall
                                     E
The Mt Sad Blues, Ill have em till I die

Chorus:
  E                     A
Cant shake those Mt Sad Blues
                                 E
No matter how many times I pay my dues
                   B7
Im going down, down, down
                    E
With the old Mt Sad Blues