Chords for Booker T Jones - Take Me to the River (Al Green cover) Live at Ronnie Scott's

_ _ But you know, I want to take you to Memphis now.
And my drummer _ was Al Jackson Jr.
He played with us for most of the day every day.
But around 10 o'clock at night, 10 o'clock and 11 o'clock
at night, he'd pack up and he'd leave.
And he would go over to another part of town
where he worked with another Al named Al Green and Teeny Hodges
and Willie Mitchell and those guys.
And I was never able to stop him from doing that.
And I'm glad I didn't, actually.
They made [Abm] such beautiful, great music [F] over there.
And he wrote this one song with Al.
And I'd like to do it for you now.
It's called, Take Me to the River.
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Take me to the river. _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [B] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Bm] _ I don't know [Ab] why I love you like I do.
[B] _ Out of all the things that you put me through.
_ Use all my money, my cigarettes.
_ I [Bm] haven't seen high, but I love you.
I [G] want to know, _ want to tell.
[D] _ _ _ [A] _ I ain't in love [E] to stay.
Yeah, _ _ yeah. _
[B] Take me to the river.
And wash me [B] down, wash me down.
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Take [B] me to the river.
[E] And get my feet on the [B] ground.
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[B] I don't know why she [A] treated me so bad.
[E] _
Out of all the things that we could [E] have had.
[B] Love is a notion I can't [B] forget.
Must be 16, I won't have her [A] again.
I want to know, [G] _ want [D] to tell. _ _ _
[A] _ I ain't in [E] love to stay.
Yeah, _ yeah.
_ [B] Take me to the river.
_ _ [E] Wash me [B] down, wash [E] me down.
Well, [B] take me to the river.
[E] And get my feet on the [B] ground. _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
Squeeze me, [E] _ _ ease me, _ please [E] me.
_ Hold [Gb] me till I can't, till I _ can't, till I [Gb] can't take no more.
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_ _ _ _ [E] Do [B] I swallow the red?
Do I swallow the blue?
Do I stop?
[A] Today you make another [B] excuse to hurt the war was on.
But do what they say about blue.
But I don't hate any [E] man and I don't like to [B] shoot.
Why I'm here anyway?
Whose idea was it?
An overwhelming [A] lie and all I get is [B] a nit.
Man, reality right.
Don't know about you, but I'm pissed.
How our billions can come up like 2%.
I thought we got to decide how I get resigned.
And they can say what they say for the rest of their lives.
The myth about a plan.
And it sounds controlled.
Likely to intercept.
[A] But I don't even [B] try.
Because I'd rather just [B] sit back and just watch people
walk around their souls.
No, don't pardon it.
There's a view that made an art of it.
Now we [Bm] do the dirt that these two and seven do.
But that's about it.
I know I'm [G] gonna know.
_ [D] Oh, just tell me. _ _
[A] _ I love.
[E] OK.
_ Yeah.
_ Yeah.
_ [B] Take me to the river.
_ [E] Wash me [B] down. _
Wash [E] me [B] down.
Take me to the river.
[E] This is my feet on the [B] _ ground.
Yeah.
[A] _ _ [E] _ [B] Indelible.
Copy Greg's style.
Stop being malleable.
Very powerful.
Walk out greeting.
Hard yet [B] malleable.
To different agents that I gave up my luck.
I'm lamenting.
Never supplementing integrity.
For a cop to sink the step to the goal.
Avoiding fit to the road.
So we look a little funny when you see us strolling.
And it'll take a little longer to take your cruise up a level.
But we still [E] going.
You see where we got to go.
[B] To work in perseverance.
Beautiful every appearance.
[E] Memorized in the first [Bm] time that you hear us.
We designed.
They contrived by.
So great sense.
So clean.
We got to [Am] feed it for the next period.
[Bm] Because I'm a.
Von Bromado.
Come a dozen. I'm a.
Put that together with the [B] fans.
That know [Bm] the time we go.
Loose from the hip.
But I'm popping up at the.
Man we really on the way.
For those who don't believe.
That.
I don't [G] know.
_ Won't you [D] tell me.
_ _ [A] _
I ain't love [E] this thing.
Yeah. _ _
Yeah.
_ [B] Take me to the river.
_ [E] _ Wash me [B] down. _
Wash me [E] down.
_ Take me to the river.
Put [E] my feet [B] on the ground.
Yeah.
_ _ [E] _ [B] Take me to the river.
_ [E] And wash [B] me. _
_ _ [E] _ Oh [B] well.
Take me to the river.
[A] Put my feet on the [B] ground.
Ground.
Yeah.
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