Chords for Bonnie Raitt - I Ain't Blue (Live 1971)

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
[F] It's a John Kerner tune.
[E] Uh, Spider John.
I'm the big bottle.
[Bb] _ [E] John just moved back [B] to Cambridge.
[E] Too bad.
But, well,
the way it goes for [G] John.
_ [Gm] _ _ He'll be dead in [C] the next year.
[G] _ _ [C] [Gm] If I can help it. _ _
[C] It's a song called I Ain't Blue.
I'm just [Gm] a little bit lonesome for some love again.
[G] Get _ [Gm] some of that _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[F] truest lyrics I've ever heard.
[C] _ Just [Fm] give it a word.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ I [Am] ain't blue.
[A] _
[F] I'm just a little bit lonesome for some [C] love again. _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [C] Oh, but [G] things [E] fine.
_ _ [F] I just don't wanna be all
[G] _ [D] _ by [Gm] myself
_ _ [C] on a rainy day.
[Gm] _ _
[D] _ _ [C] Feeling kinda [Gm] funny. _
_ _ [F] I'm dreaming about some lover [G] man to call [C] me _ home.
[G] _ Yeah, a [Am] good looking man.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _
My eyes are set.
_ [Cm] _
[Eb] Though any [G] smile _ [Bb] _ is no
[Am] I [A] ain't _ _ [C] blue, baby.
[C] I'm just a little [F] bit lonesome for [Gm] some [D] love.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[C] Everything is [Am] _ _ _
[F] fine.
I just don't wanna be [G] all
[D] by _
[Gm] myself.
_ [C] I sit around my house
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [C] reading _ [Gm] magazines
_ _ _ [F] all the time. _
[G] _ _ [E] _ [D] _ _ _ _
[C] Yeah, and I walk down the street.
_ _ _ [F] _
_ My heart jumps a beat.
[Gm] Every time [G] I see some [Bb] sweet man I wanna meet.
[Ab] No, [A] I _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ ain't there.
I'm [F] just a little bit lonesome [Gm] for some [D] love.
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[C] _ Everything [Am] is fine.
[G] _ _
[F] I just don't wanna be [Gm] all
_ [D] _ _
by myself.
_ [C] I get on a bus
[Gm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [F] going downtown [Gm] by _ _ [F] _ _ myself.
Just wanna [D] _ _ _ _ _
[E] get in the rain.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ [Fm] Coming on [F] home.
_ It's feel [Gm] like every
[G] _ _ [Bb] _ _ new
[E] _ [A] I
_ [C] _ _ _ _
hear there.
_ [F] _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ [D] Again.
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[C] _ Everything is [A] fine. _ _ _
[Dm] [F] I just don't wanna be [G] all
_ [D] _
by myself.
Lord, I [F] just don't wanna be all [G] by myself.
[D] _ _ _ _ No, I [F] just don't wanna [Gm] be all
by [D] _ _
[F] myself.
_ [G] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [E] I don't know how you follow all these kids, you know.
I don't know how you follow them.
Put on one, you could just say that.
[Gb] That's a nap [N] someone and I wrote.
They can be out of that mood very quickly,
[E] otherwise I'm gonna fall.
[Gbm] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
Some of my friends used to tell me
this is a super sexist song, but _
it's really not because if this cat wasn't so good,
then I wouldn't be doing all this shit for him.
_ That sounds weird, but you know what I mean.
A lot of, _ _ I just basically, you know,
honey, if you stay with me, you know,
I'll do anything for you.
But if you think about it, _ _ _ _
Aretha's [B] songs and people like [G] that,
I mean, that's more like a woman's song in the world,
[E] you know, respect and things like that.
And even Bessie Smith's songs, they're like,
you don't do right by me, honey,
you're not getting anything.
_ And that's, I wrote this song a little,
couple of years ago when I had somebody
to write it about. _ _ _
And that's not sexist.
_ _ [Gb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] Sometimes it's really easy to write blues songs.
It's [Gb] hard to write the other kind.
[E] You know, sunshine's pretty and honey,
won't you [B] come back?
You know, you [Gb] can't do it. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] Give you a little insight into my head.
And that explains why they say,
[Gb] _ _ _ [E] get this hour