Five Long Years
by Eddie Boyd / Buddy Guy · tab for chromatic harmonica
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If you ever- been mistreated?
You know just what I'm talking about.
If you ever- been mistreated?
You know just what I'm talking about.
I worked five long years for one woman--,
and she had the nerve----- to put me out-.
I got a-- job--- in a-- steel mill,
trucking steel just like- a- slave.
Five long years, every Friday
Straight home with all of- my----- pay.
If you ever- been mistreated?
You know just what I'm talking about.
I worked five long years for one woman--,
and she had the nerve----- to put me out-.