I Can't Write Left-Handed - Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY - October 1972 chords by Bill Withers
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Intro 1
(G major) (C major) (F major) (G major)
Verse 1
We recorded this song on Oc (D minor)
tober the (C major) 6th
Since then the war's been
(B flat major) declared over (G major)
If you're like me you'll remember
it like anybody remembers any war
(F major) One big (C major) drag (F major) (G major)
Lot of people write songs (F major) about
wars and government (C major) (B flat major)
(G major) Very social things
(F major) But I think about (C major) (B flat major) young guys who (G major) were like
I was when I was young (F major)
I had (C major) no more idea (B flat major) about any (G major) government,
or political things or (F major) anything (C major)
(B flat major) And I think about (G major) those kind
of young guys now
Who all of a sudden somebody
comes up (F major)
And they're very law-a (B flat major) biding
So (F major) So if some (C major) body says go they don't
ask any (G major) questions they just (F major) go
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Verse 2
(C major) And I can remember not (G major) too long
ago seeing a young guy (F major) (C major)
(B flat major) With his (G major) right arm gone,
just (F major) got back (C major) (B flat major) (G major)
And I asked him (F major) how
he was do (C major) ing
He said he was (B flat major) doing all right now
(G major) But he had thought he was
gonna die (F major)
He said (C major) getting shot
(B flat major) at didn't bother (G major) him
It was getting shot that
(C major) shook him up (B flat major) (G major)
And I (F major) tried to put my (C major) self
in his posi (B flat major) tion (G major)
Maybe he cried,
(F major) (C major) maybe he (F major) said
Interlude 1
(G major) (F major) (C major) (B flat major) (G major)
Verse 3
I can't write (G major) left handed (C major) (F major) (G major)
Would you please (F major) write a let (C major) ter,
(B flat major) write a letter to my (G major) mother?
Tell her (F major) , (C major) (B flat major) (G major) tell her to tell
Tell her to (C major) tell the (B flat major) family
(G major) lawyer (F major) (C major) (B flat major) (G major)
Try to (C major) get a deferment for my (B flat major) young
(G major) er brother
Interlude 2
(G major) (C major) (B flat major) (F major) (G major)
Verse 4
Tell the Reverend (G major) Har (C major) ris to pray (G major) for me,
Lord, Lord, Lord (F major) (B flat major) (G major)
I ain't (F major) gonna live, (C major) (B flat major) I don't be (G major) lieve I'm going
to live to get much older (F major) (C major) (B flat major) (G major) (F major)
(E minor) Strange little man over here in Viet (D major) nam,
I ain't, I ain't (E minor) never seen
Bless his heart I ain't
never done nothin' to
(F major) He done shot (B flat major) me in (G major) my shoulder
Interlude 3
(F major) (C major) (B flat major) (G major) (F major) (C major) (B flat major) (G major)
Verse 5
Boot camp we (F major) had classes (C major) (B flat major)
(G major) (F major) (C major) (B flat major) (G major)
You know we talked about (F major) fightin',
(C major) fight (B flat major) in' everyday (G major) (F major) (C major) (B flat major) (G major)
And lookin' (F major) through rosy,
(C major) rosy (B flat major) colored (G major) glasses (F major) (C major) (B flat major) (G major)
I must admit it seemed excit (F major) ing (C major)
(B flat major) any (G major) way (F major) (C major) (B flat major) (G major)
But something (F major) that they (C major) (B flat major) over
(G major) looked to tell me (F major) (C major) (F major) (G major)
Bullet (F major) s look better (B flat major) I (G major) must
say (F major) (C major) (B flat major) (G major)
Rather (F major) when they (C major) (F major) (G major) comin'
at you (F major) (C major) (B flat major) (G major)
But go (F major) (C major) without (F major) the other (G major) way
(F major) (C major) (B flat major)
Verse 6
(G major)
And please call up the Reverend
(F major) call up, call (C major) up the (B flat major) Rev erend
(F major) Harris (G major) (F major) (C major) (B flat major) (G major)
And tell him to ask the lord to do some (F major) good things
(C major) (B flat major) (G major) for me (F major) (C major) (B flat major) (G major)
Tell him, I ain't gonna (F major) live, I ain't (C major) gonna live
I ain't gonna (F major) live to get much (G major)
older (F major) (C major) (B flat major) (G major) (F major)
Oh (B flat major) Lord
(G major)
Verse 7
(E minor) Strange little man over here (D major) in Vietnam,
I ain't never seen
(E minor) bless his heart I, ain't
never done nothing to
(F major) he done shot (F major) me in (G major) my shoulder
(F major)
Outro 1
(B flat major) (G major) (F major) (C major) (B flat major) (G major) (G major)
I Can't Write Left-Handed - Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY - October 1972
Bill Withers
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