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LIMEHOUSE BLUES Sing D

Artist: Arr by wocky for the Fremantle RabbleComposer: Music by Philip Braham, Words by Douglas FurberCopyright: England 1918GoChords.com

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Oh Limehouse kid oh, oh, oh Limehouse k i d..............................

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go ing the way that the rest of them did.....................................

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Poor Poor lit...tle bloss om and no bod..'ys child.................................

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haun ting and taun-ting, y o u' r e j u s t k i n d o f w i l d , oh,

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Oh, Lime-house blues, I've got the real Lime-house blues.........................

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learned at the Limehouse those sad Chin - ese blues........................

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Rings on your fin gers and____tears for your crown.........................

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that is the sto ry of old Chin a town

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town............................

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outro

Limehouse Blues was written between 1918 and 1922. It was originally sung by Gertrude Lawrence, a star of British Stage and Noel Coward's leading lady. It was Jango Reinhardt, French/Gypsy Guitarist whose reading of the song set it on its path to become a Jazz Standard. Its musical construct is quite simple; double bars of a single chord, few Jazz cadences and certainly nothing 'bluesy' about it. Yet it has been recorded by hundreds of great Jazz exponents, from Sidney Bechet to Count Basie; from Tony Bennett to Julie Andrews. It has also been recorded by many blue-grass artists, notably by Reno and Smiley.

In this arrangement I have attempted to use 'perfect fifths' in the intro and the outro to demonstrate how much Eastern music is characterised by these lovely harmonies.

W Steele Sept 2013.
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