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