Sonny Boy Williamson II, Help Me (1963)
Key: :[A#m] (w: Sonny Boy Williamson II, Willie Dixon, Ralph Bass) (based on Booker T's Green Onions, 1962)
INTRO: (pattern throughout song)
[A#m] ^
[Db]^
[Eb] :
[x4]
[Ebm] ^
[Gb]^
[Ab] :
[x2]
[A#m] ^
[Db]^
[Eb] :
[x2]
[Fm] ^
[Ab]^
[A#] //
[Ebm] ^
[Gb]^
[Ab]
[A#m] ^
[Db]^
[Eb] :
[x2]
VERSE 1:
You got to
[A#m] help me, I can't do it all by myself
You got to
[Ebm] help me baby, I can't do it all by my-
[A#m]-self
You know if you
[Fm] don't help me darling
[Ebm] I'll have to find myself somebody
[A#m] else
VERSE 2:
I may have to
[A#m] wash, may have to sew, I may have to cook
I might mop the floor, but you
[Ebm] help me babe
[A#m]
You know if you
[Fm] don't help me darling
[Ebm] I'll find myself somebody
[A#m] else
INSTRUMENTAL: [over VERSE]
VERSE 3:
When I
[A#m] walk, you walk with me; when I talk, you talk to me
Oooh
[Ebm] baby, I can't do it all by my-
[A#m]-self
You know if you don't
[Fm] help me darling
[Ebm] I'll have to find myself somebody
[A#m] else
INSTRUMENTAL: [over VERSE]
VERSE 4:
Bring my
[A#m] nightshirt, put on your morning gown
Whoa,
[Ebm] bring my nightshirt, put on your morning
[A#m] gown
Darlin I
[Fm] know we stripped bare
[Ebm] But I don't feel like lying
[A#m] down
INSTRUMENTAL: [over VERSE]