Understanding chords by
Ray Charles
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Key: Eb major

Verse 1
Ab Ab 
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Db Db 
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Understanding is the best
Ab Ab 
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thing in the world,
Ebm Ebm 
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Eb Eb 
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Db Db 
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Between a boy   and a girl
Cm Cm 
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Boy and girl and even a
Db Db 
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woman or a man,
Ebm Ebm 
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It's always better when you really
Eb Eb 
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Ab Ab 
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Abm Abm 
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understand
Ab Ab 
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Db Db 
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You know understanding
is a mighty powerful thing,
Ab Ab 
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that's why it makes me so sad

Verse 2
Eb Eb 
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Ebm Ebm 
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When I see my friends wandering
Eb Eb 
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Ab Ab 
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Db Db 
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around through the world,
Never knowing the meaning of the word
Cm Cm 
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Ab Ab 
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Understanding, so in the next few minutes,
Db Db 
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I'm gonna
Ebm Ebm 
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Try to explain just exactly what  it means
Eb Eb 
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Ab Ab 
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Now wait a minute, listen,
for instance, you take me
Abm Abm 
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And my    old lady,
Db Db 
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we gotta good thing goin'

Verse 3
Ab Ab 
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Because I   know If I don't
work and pay the rent and the
Eb Eb 
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Ebm Ebm 
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Bills and buy her fine pretty
Abm Abm 
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clothes to wear well,
Db Db 
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There are fifteen other guys
just waitin' round the
Cm Cm 
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Corner, and I don't care how much
Ab Ab 
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Db Db 
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that woman loves me,
She's gonna go out and find
Eb Eb 
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Ebm Ebm 
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herself one of them  who
Will and that's why I
Ab Ab 
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believe that
Db Db 
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Understanding is the best thing in the world,
Ab Ab 
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Eb Eb 
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Db Db 
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Between a boy and a   girl

Verse 4
Db Db 
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Cm Cm 
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Boy and girl and even a
woman or a man,
Db Db 
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It's always better when you
Ebm Ebm 
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Eb Eb 
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really understand
Abm Abm 
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Ab Ab 
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Now listen I don't want
Db Db 
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you to think that this is a
One sided affair, no no
Ab Ab 
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Because my old lady also understands
Ebm Ebm 
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that a man must
Db Db 
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Have respect

Verse 5
Db Db 
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What I mean is,
Cm Cm 
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if she must play around don't let me
Db Db 
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Ebm Ebm 
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Eb Eb 
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Catch her, because what I don't see   can't hurt me,
you
Ab Ab 
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Understand? but on the other hand,
If I should ever
Db Db 
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Catch her I'm not gonna talk about- a
Ab Ab 
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And call her a bunch of bad
names like you all might
Ebm Ebm 
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Eb Eb 
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No no

Verse 6
Ebm Ebm 
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What I'm gonna do,
Db Db 
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I'm gonna go down- town to the
Hardware store and buy myself
Cm Cm 
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a double blade axe,
Come back, square off,
Ab Ab 
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Db Db 
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and believe her soul's gonna
Belong to the good lord

Verse 7
Ebm Ebm 
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Because her head's gonna belong to me,
and I
Eb Eb 
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Guarantee she'll know what I
Ab Ab 
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mean when I'll say
Db Db 
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Understanding is the best  thing in the world,
Ab Ab 
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Ebm Ebm 
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Eb Eb 
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Abm Abm 
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Db Db 
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Between a boy   and a girl

Verse 8

Boy and girl and even a

woman or a man,

It's always better when

Ebm

you really understand

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