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