Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out

Artist: Eric Clapton / Bessie Smith / Janis Joplin (English)
User: Jeremiah McCaw Budnark
Duration: 130 seconds
Delay: 12 seconds
Chord names: Not defined
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written by JImmie Cox 1923

I've formatted this together from a number of sources. Hopefully, it's definitive. For my own purposes (performances) I've put the root form on the key of 'D'. If you're looking for Clapton's live performance key, he was in 'C'.

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Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
Jimmy Cox (1923)


 D                F#7       B7
 Once I lived the life of a millionaire
 Em          B7          Em
 Spending my money and I didn't care
 G         G#7               D           B7
 Taking my friends out for a mighty fine time
         E7                       A7
 Drinking high-priced liquor  cham-pagne & wine


 D         F#7    B7
 When I be-gan to fall so low
  Em            B7         Em
 I didn't have a friend and no place to go
     G           G#7        D         B7
 If I ever get my hands on a dollar ag-ain
          E7                      A7
 I'm gonna hold on to it 'til that eagle grins
                                         ('til the livin' end)


 D  F#7  B7        Em          B7       Em
 No-body knows you when you're down and out
 G       G#7    D       B7        E7                  A7
 In your pocket not one penny and as for friends, you haven't any
       D           F#7         B7
 But as soon as you get on your feet again
 Em        B7               Em
 Everybody wants to be your long lost friend
     G      G#7          D     B7
 It's mighty strange with-out a doubt
 E7                         A7       D
 Nobody knows you when your down and out


 D  F#7  B7        G           B7       Em
 No-body loves you when you're down and out
 Em      G#7    D       B7
 In your pocket not one penny
    E7                  A7
 and as for friends, you haven't any
 D             F#7          B          B7
  When you get back on your feet again
 Em         B7               Em
  Everybody Wants to Be your Long Lost Friend
 G            G#dim7      D       B7
  I said it's strange without any doubt

 [Coda]       E7
            Nobody knows you (nobody knows you)
           G
             Nobody knows you (nobody knows you)
           D7     G7      N.C.
            Nobody knows you 
                                    C#9 D9
            When you're down and out

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