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A Mess Of Blues

(Doc Pomus - Mort Shuman)


Copyright Elvis Presley Music Inc.


RCA studio session - March 20-21, 1960 - RCA Studio B - Nashville

 March 21 - 4-7 am

L2WB 0085-05
July 1960 Single B side RCA 47-7777 It's Now Or Never / A Mess Of Blues
Outtakes:
Take 1: July 29, 1997 CD RCA 07863-67469-2 Platinum: A Life In Music
Take 1: June 1, 2000 CD FTD 74321 76749-2 Long Lonely Highway - Nashville 1960-1968
Takes 1, 2 and 3: April 1, 2005 CD FTD 82876-67968-2 Elvis Is Back!





I just got your letter baby
Too bad you can't come home
I swear I'm goin' crazy
Sittin' here all alone
Since your gone
I got a mess of the blues


I ain't slept a week since Sunday
I can't eat a thing all day
Every day is just blue Monday
Since you've been away
Since your gone
I got a mess of the blues


* Whoops there goes a teardrop
Rollin' down my face
If you cry when you're in love
It sure ain't no disgrace
I gotta get myself together
Before I lose my mind
I'm gonna catch the next train goin'
And leave my blues behind
Since your gone
I got a mess of the blues


* Repeat


Since your gone, I got a mess of the blues
Since your gone, I got a mess of the blues 




Standard tuning.
	Intro: C       G7
           C
   	I just got your letter baby
        C
	Too bad you can't come home
      F
	I swear I’m goin' crazy
    F
	Sittin' here all alone
               G7
	Since your gone
      F7            C           G7
	I got a mess of blues

            C
	I ain't slept a week since Sunday
            C
    I can't eat a thing all day
          F
	Every day is just blue Monday
    F
	Since you've been away
               G7
	Since your gone
      F7            C            G7
	I got a mess of blues

    F
	Whoops there goes a teardrop
    C
	Rollin' down my face
    F
	If you cry when you're in love
       G7  (tacet)             G7
	It sure ain't no disgrace

            C
	I gotta get myself together
      C
	Before I lose my mind
              F
	I'm gonna catch the next train goin'
        F
	And leave my blues behind
               G7
	Since your gone
      F7            C            G7
	I got a mess of blues

    F
	Whoops there goes a teardrop
    C
	Rollin' down my face
    F
	If you cry when you're in love
       G7  (tacet)             G7
	It sure ain't no disgrace
    

            C
	I gotta get myself together
      C
	Before I lose my mind
              F
	I'm gonna catch the next train goin'
        F
	And leave my blues behind
               G7
	Since your gone
      F7            C            G7
	I got a mess of blues
               G7
	Since your gone
      F7            C            G7
	I got a mess of blues
               G7
	Since your gone
      F7            C            C7
	I got a mess of blues