Understanding chords by
Ray Charles
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Key: Eb major
Verse 1
Bb
Bb

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Eb
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Understanding is the best
Bb
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thing in the world,
Fm
Fm

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F
F

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Eb
Eb

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Between a boy and a girl
Dm
Dm

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Boy and girl and even a
Eb
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woman or a man,
Fm
Fm

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It's always better when you really
F
F

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Bb
Bb

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Bbm
Bbm

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understand
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Eb
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You know understanding
is a mighty powerful thing,
Bb
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that's why it makes me so sad
Verse 2
F
F

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Fm
Fm

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When I see my friends wandering
F
F

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Bb
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Eb
Eb

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around through the world,
Never knowing the meaning of the word
Dm
Dm

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Bb
Bb

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Understanding, so in the next few minutes,
Eb
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I'm gonna
Fm
Fm

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Try to explain just exactly what it means
F
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Bb
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Now wait a minute, listen,
for instance, you take me
Bbm
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And my old lady,
Eb
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we gotta good thing goin'
Verse 3
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Because I know If I don't
work and pay the rent and the
F
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Fm
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Bills and buy her fine pretty
Bbm
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clothes to wear well,
Eb
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There are fifteen other guys
just waitin' round the
Dm
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Corner, and I don't care how much
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Eb
Eb

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that woman loves me,
She's gonna go out and find
F
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Fm
Fm

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herself one of them who
Will and that's why I
Bb
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believe that
Eb
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Understanding is the best thing in the world,
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F
F

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Eb
Eb

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Between a boy and a girl
Verse 4
Eb
Eb

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Dm
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Boy and girl and even a
woman or a man,
Eb
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It's always better when you
Fm
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F
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really understand
Bbm
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Bb
Bb

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Now listen I don't want
Eb
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you to think that this is a
One sided affair, no no
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Because my old lady also understands
Fm
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that a man must
Eb
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Have respect
Verse 5
Eb
Eb

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What I mean is,
Dm
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if she must play around don't let me
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Fm
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F
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Catch her, because what I don't see can't hurt me,
you
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Understand? but on the other hand,
If I should ever
Eb
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Catch her I'm not gonna talk about- a
Bb
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And call her a bunch of bad
names like you all might
Fm
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F
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No no
Verse 6
Fm
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What I'm gonna do,
Eb
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I'm gonna go down- town to the
Hardware store and buy myself
Dm
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a double blade axe,
Come back, square off,
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Eb
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and believe her soul's gonna
Belong to the good lord
Verse 7
Fm
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Because her head's gonna belong to me,
and I
F
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Guarantee she'll know what I
Bb
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mean when I'll say
Eb
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Understanding is the best thing in the world,
Bb
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Fm
Fm

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F
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Bbm
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Eb
Eb

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Between a boy and a girl
Verse 8
Eb
Eb

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Dm
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Boy and girl and even a
woman or a man,
Eb
Eb

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It's always better when
F
F

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Fm
Fm

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you really understand
Outro 1
F
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