Biography:
The Derek Trucks Band is a band started by slide guitarist prodigy, Derek Trucks, who began playing guitar and touring with The Allman Brothers Band, as early as eleven years old. Raised partly on tour with them throughout his youth, meeting and playing with famous musicians, Trucks was still unsure about his own future. He resolved to start his own band while still an adolescent. What first began as a side project, and a way for Trucks to explore his own creativity
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I’d Rather be Blind, Cripple and Crazy
The Derek Trucks Band
This is a great reworking of the old blues tune written by Hodges, Carter, Robey and
originally by the great Buddy Guy. They mellow B3 part is transcribed for guitar (play it
a slow groove over a double time beat) and the slide is in Bm pentatonic. --Mo Love
Intro and keyboard arranged for guitar
B7 B7sus4 B7 E E6
E|-7--x--x---7----7----|-7--------------7---|
B|-7--x--x---7----7----|-9---------9----9---|
G|-8--x--x---9----8----|-9---------9----9---|
D|-7--x--x---7----7----|-9---------11---9---|
A|-9--x--x---9----9----|-7---------7----7---|
E|-7--x--x---7----7----|---------------------|
v E A v ^ v E A v ^
INTRO: | B7 B7sus4 B7 | E E6 E | (repeat)
B7 E
Just stepped out, over and over again
Standin’ my pride, even though I know I can’t win
I’m tired, of you messin’ up my tide
You got yours, let me-let me have mine
CHORUS
B7 E
I’d rather be blind, cripple and crazy
B7 E
Somewhere pushin’ up daisies
G#7 E
Than to let you break my heart all over again
To break a man’s heart, all you need is pain
You’ve got me so messed up, ‘bout to go insane
You break a man’s heart, and don’t say nothin’ to him
I keep askin’ myself, “Why you wanna do it? Why you wanna do it?”
CHORUS
Why you wanna do it baby?
(SOLO – slide guitar over a verse and chorus in Bm pentatonic)
CHORUS
The Derek Trucks Band
This is a great reworking of the old blues tune written by Hodges, Carter, Robey and
originally by the great Buddy Guy. They mellow B3 part is transcribed for guitar (play it
a slow groove over a double time beat) and the slide is in Bm pentatonic. --Mo Love
Intro and keyboard arranged for guitar
B7 B7sus4 B7 E E6
E|-7--x--x---7----7----|-7--------------7---|
B|-7--x--x---7----7----|-9---------9----9---|
G|-8--x--x---9----8----|-9---------9----9---|
D|-7--x--x---7----7----|-9---------11---9---|
A|-9--x--x---9----9----|-7---------7----7---|
E|-7--x--x---7----7----|---------------------|
v E A v ^ v E A v ^
INTRO: | B7 B7sus4 B7 | E E6 E | (repeat)
B7 E
Just stepped out, over and over again
Standin’ my pride, even though I know I can’t win
I’m tired, of you messin’ up my tide
You got yours, let me-let me have mine
CHORUS
B7 E
I’d rather be blind, cripple and crazy
B7 E
Somewhere pushin’ up daisies
G#7 E
Than to let you break my heart all over again
To break a man’s heart, all you need is pain
You’ve got me so messed up, ‘bout to go insane
You break a man’s heart, and don’t say nothin’ to him
I keep askin’ myself, “Why you wanna do it? Why you wanna do it?”
CHORUS
Why you wanna do it baby?
(SOLO – slide guitar over a verse and chorus in Bm pentatonic)
CHORUS
The Devastations
The Devlins
The Dewarists
The Dharmas
The Dials