[Intro ](same as verse) 

                      "Sitting down here wondering, will a matchbox hold my clothes?  

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  Sittin down here wondering, will a matchbox hold my clothes?   

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  Sittin down here wondering will a matchbox hold my clothes." 

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After the intro and each verse, Leadbelly does a sort of spoken part.  
At these times, he just keeps strumming the strings open like this: 


  "This song was made about a man and a woman, this man wanted to marry the woman, she didn't want him" etc. 

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    1    2  &  3   4     



Then, at the end of the song, Leadbelly, says something like, "little girl jumped on and played the piano", 
and he plays this part that sort of sounds like piano, using harmonics: 

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D|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------| 


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D|-------------------------------|--------------------------------| 
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D|-------------------------------|--------------------------------| 


    +      +    +   +    +   +   +      +      +   +    +    +   +   + 
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D|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------| 


    +     +   +   +    +   +  +     +     +     + 
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D|-------------------------------|------------------| 


| /  slide up 
| \  slide down 
| +  harmonic