Understanding chords by
Ray Charles
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Verse 1
F F 
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Bb Bb 
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Understanding is the best
F F 
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thing in the world,
Cm Cm 
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C C 
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Bb Bb 
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Between a boy and a girl
Am Am 
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Boy and girl and even a
Bb Bb 
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woman or a man,
Cm Cm 
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It's always better when you really
C C 
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F F 
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Fm Fm 
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understand
F F 
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Bb Bb 
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You know understanding
is a mighty powerful thing,
F F 
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that's why it makes me so sad

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

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

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

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

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

Verse 7
Cm Cm 
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Because her head's gonna belong to me,
and I
C C 
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Guarantee she'll know what I
F F 
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mean when I'll say
Bb Bb 
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Understanding is the best  thing in the world,
F F 
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Cm Cm 
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C C 
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Fm Fm 
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Bb Bb 
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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

you really understand

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