[Chords used]
     C#m     F#    D#m     G#     B
E|----4------2------6------4------2----|
B|----5------2------7------4------4----|
G|----6------3------8------5------4----|
D|----6------4------8------6------4----|
A|----4------4------6------6------2----|
E|----4------2------6------4------2----|

[Verse 1]
    C#m                            F#
I’m phoning in the blues ’cause my life ain’t stallin’
   D#m                         G#
The phone just rang to say the blues ain’t callin’
 C#m                       F#
I thought that I’d always called it like I saw it
  D#m                 G#
I got the blues and I know just how to call ’em
C#m   F#                      B
Baby that’s how they call the blues

[Verse 2]
          C#m                           F#
Yeah, I’m phoning in the blues like the phony version of the
D#m                               G#
blues that they thought that they had
  C#m                    F#
It was the phony bologna version of the blues that was
    D#m                       G#
the version that I thought my baby had had
 C#m                        F#
I tried to retract them, my baby never had them
 D#m                            G#
’til we called them on the telephone but they didn’t listen
C#m   F#                      B
Baby, that’s how the call the blues

[Verse 3]
    C#m                            F#
I’m phoning in the blues ’cause my life ain’t stallin’
   D#m                         G#
The phone just rang to say the blues ain’t callin’
 C#m                       F#
I thought that I’d always called it like I saw it
  D#m                 G#
I got the blues and I know just how to call ’em
C#m   F#                      B      G#m
Baby, that’s how the call the blues, yeah
C#m   F#                      B
Baby, that’s how the call the blues