From: stuart@comserver.canberra.edu.au (Stuart Christopherson)
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32-20 Blues
by Robert Johnson
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Johnson`s original recording and this transcription are both in the key
of A. A standard guitar tuning is used. A capo is used on the second fret.
/ = denotes slide
* = denotes bending 1/4 step
Introduction
A7 Adim7 Dm6 A A7 A6 A+
E----------|-9----------|-8--8--------7--7-------|----5--5--5--5-|
B----------|-8----------|-7--7--------6--6-------|-------5-------|
G----/9----|-9----------|-8--8-----7--7--7-------|---------------|
D----------|------------|-------------------7--6-|-2-----5--4--3-|
A----------|-0--0--0--0-|-0-----0-----0-----0----|-0-------------|
E----------|------------|------------------------|---------------|
If I send for my baby, man and she don`t come
A5 E7/5 N.C. A
A6 A
E-5--0--0--0-------|---0---------------|--5--------------|-0------0-0--0-0---|
B------------------|-------------------|-----------------|-2--------1*-----2-|
G------------------|-------------------|-----------------|-----------------2-|
D-2-----0-----0--0-|-------------------|-----------------|---------------4---|
A-------2-----2----|---0---0---0---0---|--0---0---0---0--|-0-0-0-0--0----0---|
E-------0-----0----|-------------------|-----------------|-------------------|
If I send for my baby, man and she don`t come
Amaj7 A7 D7 A A7
E--5--4--3-----|--------------|----------------|-----5--3--3--------0--|
B--------------|--------------|----------------|-----------------2-----|
G--------------|--5-----------|-----5----------|-----------------------|
D-----2--------|--4--4--4--4--|--4--4---4---4--|--------2-----2--------|
A--0--0--0--0--|--5--5--5--5--|--5--5---5---5--|--0--0--------0--------|
E--------------|--------------|----------------|-----------------------|
All the doctors in Hot Springs sure can`t help her none.
A E7/5 D7/F A A7
A6 A+
E--5--3--2--0--------|---------------|---------------------|--5-5-5-5-5-5-0-|
B--------------------|---------------|-------------1-------|----------------|
G--------------------|---------------|------------------2--|----5---2---2---|
D--2-----------------|---0--0--0--0--|--0------------------|--------4---3---|
A--0--------------4--|---2--2--2--2--|--0---0---0----0-----|-0--------------|
E--------0-----0-----|---0--0--0--0--|--2---2---2----2-----|----------------|
And if she gets unruly, thinks she don`t want to do.
E7 A7 Adim7 A7
E--0---0-------------|--9--------------|--8------------------|-9-----------|
B--------------------|--8--------------|--7------------------|-8-----------|
G--------------------|--9-----------8--|---------------------|-9-----------|
D---------0----------|-----------------|----------------/11--|-------------|
A---------2----------|--0--0--0--0-----|--0---0---0---0------|-0--0--0--0--|
E--0----------0------|-----------------|---------------------|-------------|
If she gets unruly and thinks she don`t want to do.
A Amaj7 A7 D D7 A
E--5--5--4--3--3-----|------------------|--------------------|-----0--------|
B--------------------|------------------|--------------------|-----2--------|
G--------------------|------------------|--5-----------------|--------------|
D--------------------|--4---4---4---4---|--4---4---4---4-----|------------2-|
A--0-----0--0-----0--|--5---5---5---5---|--5---5---5---5-----|--0-----0---0-|
E--------------------|------------------|--------------------|--------------|
Take my thirty-two-twenty, now I cut her half in two.
E7/5 D7/F A A7
A6 A+
E------5--3--2--2--5----|---------------|-----------------|----5---5--5--5--|
B-----------------------|---------------|----------1------|-----------2--2--|
G--2--------------------|---------------|---------------2-|-----------4--3--|
D---------2-----2-------|--0--0--0--0---|--0--------------|--2---5----------|
A--0------0-----0-------|--2--2--2--2---|--0--0--0---0----|-----------------|
E---------------------0-|--0--0--0--0---|--2--2--2---2----|-----------------|
She got a east.
E7 A5 A7 A6 A+ E E7 A7
E--0---0------------|-------5---5---5---0--|---0-------------3----|
B---------3---------|----------------------|------0----------2----|
G---------1---------|---2------------------|---------0/1-----2----|
D--0-------------0--|---2---5---4---3------|-------------0---2----|
A------2------2-----|---0------------------|-----------------0----|
E--0---0------0-----|-------------------0--|----------------------|
If I send for my baby - and she don`t come.
If I send for my baby - man, and she don`t come.
All the doctors in Hot Springs sure can`t help her none.
And if she gets unruly, things she don`t want to do.
And if she gets unruly and thinks she don`t want to do.
Take my 32-20 now, and cut her half in two.
She got a .38 special but I believe it`s most too light.
She got a .38 special but I believe it`s most too light.
I got a 32-20, got to make the camps alright.
If I send for my baby - and she don`t come.
If I send for my baby - man, and she don`t come.
All the doctors in Hot Springs sure can`t help her none.
I`m gonna shoot my pistol, gonna shoot my Gatling gun.
I`m gonna shoot my pistol, got-ta shoot my Gatling gun.
You made me love you - now your man have come.
Ah-oh - baby, where you stay last night?
Ah - baby, where you stayed last night?
You got the hair all tangled and you ain`t talking right.
Her .38 special, boys, do it very well.
Her .38 special, boys, it do very well.
I got a 32-20 now, and it`s a burning.
If I send for my baby - and she don`t come.
If I send for my baby - man, and she don`t come.
All the doctors in Wisconsin sure can`t help her none.
Hey, hey, baby, where`d you stay last night?
Hey, hey, baby, where`d you stay last night?
You didn`t come home until the sun was shining bright.
Ah-oh - boy, I just can`t take my rest.
Ah-oh - boy, I just can`t take my rest.
With this 32-20 laying up and down my breast.
