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