Drown In My Own Tears chords by Solomon Burke

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Verse 1
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Think about heavy old guys,
really get heavy into that blues
thing.
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You know, that's basically just
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about everything in my life,
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is that churchy blues.
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To me, Ray Charles is still
the master
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and the genius of everything
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he touches.
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You know, that song, Drowning on Tears,
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is one of my mother's
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favorite songs.
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I remember when she used to play
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that every time my father would be
late.
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No, she used to play it on a record.
We had a big 78,
and she would play it.
Every time my father would be late
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coming home from work on Friday night, you know,
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he'd probably stop off at about five or six bars on the way home,
and she would get on that record, you know,
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and she'd be looking out the window  waiting for him,
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you know, drowning in her tears.
That's what I like about it.
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Play it again.
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Let's, let's, uh...
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A  lot of women cried about this song,
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a lot of men too. Makes you stop and
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think a little bit. Yeah.
I look back over my life
and I think about all the mistakes
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that I made in love.
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And how I learned
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what different strokes
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for different folks was.
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How good a stroke could be
and how bad a stroke could be.
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And how much fun it could be
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to be able to sock it to somebody
and have somebody sock it back to you.
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But then to turn around
and hear a song like this,
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it makes you stop and won
der
how much wrong have you done
and how much right have you done
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to deserve the wrong
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that you're getting.
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It brings a tear into my eyes
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When I begin to realize
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How I cried so
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much since you have gone
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I  guess I just drowned,
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drowned in my own tears
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Oh, I sit and cry,
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Lord, just like a child
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Don't you blow my poor winters, yeah
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To me, they're runnin' wild
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But if  you don't see
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That you'll be home soon
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Sometime tomorrow
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I guess I was just drunk, oh yeah,
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in my own tears.
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Now look at here, I know it's true.
I tell you end of each life right
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now.
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Oh, some rain, rain must fall,
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but people like you so blue.
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You know what I'm talking about, Steve.
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Girl, when I think about you,
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it just keeps on rainin',
oh,
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baby, rainin', rainin', rainin',
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more and more and more an d more
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and more more and more.
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Why can't you? Lord,
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make up your mind
and come back home
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Can't you see I'm so tired of being heartbroken,
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worried, and all alone,
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if you just say you'll
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be home soon,
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sometime by tomorrow.
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I guess I'll just have to join
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in my own tears, yeah.