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My Rapp easy guitar chords by
James Brown
James Brown

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Verse 1
G
Em

Sweet thing,
Am

you're dead now

You're dead
D

Yeah
G
Em

You're out cold, but live on, now
Am

Now at Christmastime,
D
G
Em

an d the whole year round

Right on?
Am

Right on
D

Look here, sweet thing,
G

let me explain myself, baby
Em
Am

When I say you're dead,
D

I- I mean, you know
G

I mean, I mean you're really out of sight
Em
Am

Out of sight, totally together
D

But you, you let me down now
G

You didn't even defend yourself
Em

You didn't defend yourself
Am

Nor me
D
G

And you left me like, like...
Em

Oh, no, I can't say this on record,
Am
D

but I'm gonna try to write
Dm
D

This little old letter and,
G

and let you dig my little old rap
Em

It starts like this

Listen to it
Am

For what it's worth, for what it
D
G

Could mean to you and I both later on
Em

Dear Sweet Thing, Fox,
Am
Dm

all the beautiful things
D
G

All the little names that I give you
Em

I sit here so aggravated and bewildered
Am

because
D

You didn't, you know,
Dm
D

you didn't come home
G

You didn't come straight
Em

back to me last night
Am
D

No fussing, no fighting, no nothing
G
Em

You just up and split
Am

with another cat
D

Of course, I found out later he was your friend,
G

but uh...
Em

And this much this morning I was able,

I was able
Am
D

To understand that, after a very hectic night
G
Em

You can dig the night was long
Am
D

Now, I made it clear as possible,
G

as possibly I could say it
Em
Am

Baby, don't go to strangers
D
G

Come on home to me
Em

Now, it's true, it's true,
Am

this is a man's world
D
G

But it wouldn't be nothing
Em
Am

without your kind that I
D

See now after 24 hours of suffering,
G
Em
Am

tears, cold sweat
D
G

Why does my girl always have to be the
Em

One to go south and go away
Am

from me?
D

And leave me stringing on a tree,

dangling on a string

That's all right
G

I'm gonna be there when you come back
Em

But I'm gonna give you this little old rap
Am

So you can get this together,
D

you know?
G

Since you don't, you know,

smoke it in a pipe
Em
Am

Just to chew it but understand

what I'm saying
D

I want you to know where I'm coming

from now
G

Like, I have a right, you know,
Em

to like, come on with this old
Am

Aggravated or, or, uh,
D

antagonizing rap because I feel a little down
G

But I think you're gonna make it all
Em

Right 'cause you just together that way
Am

Now, baby,
D

can't you be conscious of like
G

Every moment in the day and the night?
Em
Am

And let all of our moods be for each other together,
D

you know?
G

And completely out of sight,
Em

completely out of sight in every way
Am

How can I explain it when we
D

live and
G

Concentrate on being healthy
Em

100% in mellow tone?
Am
D

However, yes,
G

I know sometime that you aren't mellow, but
Em

You know, uh, deep down inside
Am

I know you mellow people
D
G

Well, at least not as mellow as I

hope you would be sometime
Em

But you know how to do something
Am

about that too

'Cause you just too good
D
G

to be anything but you
Em

Now, I'm still, I'm still willing to,
Am
D

to help for, for...
G

Let's say help each other and
Em

I don't care what it take

Even if we have to sleep in a tent
Am

as long as I know that
D

We are close together and that vibrations,
G

uh, from
Em

Your love and affection and the warmth
Am
D

of you is there
G
Em

Can't you see that this opportunity
Am
D
G

comes once in a lifetime?
Em

Sometimes I wanna know why you
Am

living on past time
D

Past time things right before your eyes,

you know?
G
Em

Mm
Am

Well, and sometimes it just seem it's
D

impossible for you to see
G

You're, you're not blind,

you know?
Em

You're just hardheaded,

stubborn, but that's all right
Am

Those are the sweet things

that makes you you
D

And I wouldn't take nobody
G

else but you
Em
Am
D
G

You let my flame go out last night
Em
Am

You let my flame go out
D

You know?
G

I, I don't expect like for you

just to, you can sleep
Em

James Brown or you can sleep your man,

but uh
Am

Since I'm your man,
D

you can even sleep me, James Brown

You know?

'Cause that's who we're talking
G

about

We're not talking about John
Em

Doe or maybe

Johnny Terry or somebody,
Am

or Bobby Byrd
D

We're talking about me and you,
G

or you and
Em

I if you want to be, you

know, correct
Am

But I think just saying me and you makes it close,

you know?
D

I can feel you that way
G

That's all right

Just take your time

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