Chords for Bill Withers - I Can't Write Left-Handed (Live) (Official Audio)

_ _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ [Bb] _
_ We recorded [Ab] this song on [Bb] October the 6th.
Since then the war has been declared over.
If you're like me, you'll remember it like anybody [Ab] remembers any war.
One big [Eb] drag. _ _
[Bb] _ A lot of [Ab] people write songs about wars, government, _
[Bb] very social things.
[C] _ [Eb] But I think about _ [Bb]
young guys who were like I was when I was young.
[Ab] _ I had no more idea about [Bb] any government or political [Ab] things or anything. _
I [Bb] think about those kind of young guys now who all of a sudden somebody comes up
[Eb] and they're very [Db] law abiding.
[Bb] So if somebody says go, they don't ask [Ab] any questions, they just go. _
[Bb] I can remember not too long ago seeing a young guy with _
[Db] _ [Bb] his right arm gone.
_ [Ab] Just got back [Eb] and _ _ [Bb] I asked him how [Eb] he [Ab] was doing.
He said he was doing all right [Bbm] now but he had thought he was going [Bb] to die. _ _
[Eb] [Bb] He said getting shot at didn't bother him.
_ _ It was getting [Eb] shot that shook him up.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ And I [Eb] tried to put myself in his position.
[Cm] _ [Bb] Maybe he cried.
[Fm] _
_ Maybe he said
[Bb] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ I [Ab] can't write left handed.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] Would you please write a letter, write a letter [Bb] to my mother. _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
Tell her to tell, tell her to tell, tell her to [Bbm] tell her [Bb] family lawyer.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Try to get, try to get a deferment [Db] for my [Bb] younger brother.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Tell [Ab] Reverend Harris [Cm] to [Bb] pray for me, Lord, Lord, [Ab] Lord.
_ [Db] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[Fm] I [Eb] ain't gonna live, [Bb] I don't believe I'm gonna live to get much older. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ Strange little man over [F] here in Vietnam, I [Gm] ain't never seen.
Bless his heart, I ain't [Ab] never done nothing to.
[Ebm] He done shot [Bb] me in my shoulder.
[Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ Boot camp we had classes. _
_ You _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] know we talked about fighting, fighting [Bb] every day.
_ [G] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Bb] And _ [Fm] looking through rosy, rosy [Bbm] colored glasses.
_ [Ab] _ [Eb] I _ _
[Bb] _ must [Ab] admit it seemed exciting _ [Bb] anyway.
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [Fm] But something that they _ [Bb] overlooked to tell me, Lord, _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Fm] bullets look better, I [Bb] must say.
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [Fm] Reverend when they ain't [Bb] coming at you.
_ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [Ab] But go and out the [Bb] other way.
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Bb] And please [Ab] call up the Reverend, call up, call up the Reverend [Bb] Harris.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Bb] And tell him to ask the [Fm] Lord to do some good things for [Bb] _ me, Lord.
_ [Eb] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ Tell him I ain't gonna live, I ain't gonna live, I ain't gonna live to get much older.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Db] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Gm] Strange little man over [F] here in Vietnam, I [Gm] ain't never seen.
Bless his heart, I ain't never done [Ab] nothing to.
He done shot me in my [C] shoulder. _
[Fm] He done shot _ [Bb] _ _ _ me in _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _