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