{"id":16114,"date":"2023-07-31T22:43:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T22:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=16114"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:00:08","slug":"bartender-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/bartender-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartender Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/code>key of C<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/code><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

James Taylor\r\n<\/span> \r\nNow I'm [C] just a bartender. <\/span><\/span> I [F] don't like my [Dm] work.\r\n<\/span><\/span>But I [G] don't mind the money at [C] all.\r\n<\/span><\/span>I see [C] lots of sad faces, a<\/span><\/span>nd [F] lots of bad [Dm] cases\r\n<\/span><\/span>Of [G] folks with their backs to the [C] wall.\r\n<\/span><\/span>\r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n<\/span>But I need [C] four walls [C7] around me to [F] hold my [Dm] life.   <\/span><\/span>To [G] keep me from going a-[C]-stray   \r\n<\/span><\/span>A [C] honky-tonk angel  to [F] hold me [Dm] tight.  <\/span><\/span>To [G] keep me from slipping [C] away\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\nI can [C] light up your smokes.  <\/span><\/span>I can [F] laugh at your [Dm] jokes.  <\/span><\/span>I can [G] watch you fall down on your [C] knees .\r\n<\/span><\/span>I can [C] close down this bar.  <\/span><\/span>I can [F] gas up my [Dm] car.  <\/span><\/span>I can [G] pack up and mail in my [C] key \r\n<\/span><\/span>\r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n<\/span> \r\nNow, the [C] smoke fills the air i<\/span><\/span>n this [F] honky-tonk [Dm] bar\r\n<\/span><\/span>And I'm [G] thinking 'bout where I'd rather [C] be. \r\n<\/span><\/span>But I [C] burned all my bridges, and<\/span><\/span> [F] sank all my [Dm] ships\r\n<\/span><\/span>And I'm [G] stranded at the edge [C] of A Z.\r\n<\/span><\/span>\r\n[Chorus with music] \r\nI need [C] four walls [C7] around me  to [F] hold my [Dm] life \r\n<\/span>To [G] keep me from going a-[C]-stray \r\n<\/span>A [C] honky-tonk [C7] angel to [F] hold me [Dm] tight.\r\n<\/span>To [G] keep me from slipping [C] away \r\n<\/span><\/span>\r\n{ CHORUS }<\/span> acapella with harmony\r\n{ CHORUS } with music<\/span>\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
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key of C James Taylor Now I’m [C] just a bartender. I [F] don’t like my [Dm] work. But I [G] don’t mind the money at [C] all. I see [C] lots of sad faces, and [F] lots of bad [Dm] cases Of [G] folks with their backs to the … CLICK TO VIEW SONGBartender Blues<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,126,116,117,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}