Doing The Best I Can Chords by James Brown

[D] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [D] _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[Am] Doing the best I can, I _ _ can.
_ _ I'm only a [Em] man, _ [Am] _ [Bm] _ _ [Am] _ [Bm] _ my life has been empty [Em] _ since you went away.
[Bm] _ I feel so very, very [Em] lonely.
I just trip from day to day.
_ [Am] _ I'm doing the best [Em] I can.
[Am] _ Trying to get over. _
_ Doing the best [C] I can.
[Am] _ [Bm]
[Am] I'm [Bm] brokenhearted.
_ _ _ [Em] It's my fault.
_ _ _ _ [Bm] Treated you wrong so many times.
[Em] _ I just want to come.
[C] _
_ [Bm] I'm [Am] just a man.
_ [G] _
Doing the best I [C] can.
_ [Bm] _ [Am] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ Now [C] darling, _ doing the best _ [Bm] I can.
Treated every [Am] day so many [G] times.
[F] _ I know you're going away.
_ [C] _ [Am] _
_ Said I know you're going away.
_ _ I miss you, he said, every day.
_ [D] Every, [C] every, every, [Am] every.
[Am] _ _ [Bm] _ I get lonely.
_ [Em] _ _ _ Night after night.
[Bm] _
_ Wondering if I'm doing [Em] _ what's wrong or if I'm doing what's right.
[Am] _ But I'm only [D] a man, baby.
[C] _ [Am] Baby, I'm only a [D] man.
[C] _ [Am] I'm for real and I'm doing the _ _ best I can.
I'm for real.
Now baby.
I'm for real.
[Dm] _ [C] Now baby.
I'm for [Am] real.
_ [D] _
[Em] Yeah.
_ [Am] _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _
[Am] _ _ [D] _ [C] I'm [Am] for real.
What and who and where?
[D] _ [Em] I'm for real.
What [Am] if I did wrong?
[D] _ _ [G]
I wonder [Am] who cares.
_ [Em] _ _ [Am] _ _
[D] [G] Is it right for me to suffer?
[Am] _ _ [Em] Yeah, I stand [Am] with [E] my head hanging low.
_ [Am] _
[E] I _ _ [Am] _ [G] don't know just where to go.
[Am] How [G] long can I keep it up?
_ [Am] _
_ [E] Tell me I [Am] _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ [Am] _ [Em] need it.
_ [Am] _
_ [Em] I'm for real.
_ [Am] _ _ [Em] _
[C] I'm for real.
_ [Em] Woo.
_ _ [Am] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _
[Am] I'm for real.
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _
I want you [C] to know I miss you, baby.
[Am] [D] I [G]
miss you so.
[Am] I _ [G] miss you, darling.
[Am] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] [Em] I'm _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ for [Am] real.
[Em] How long [Am] can I keep it up?
[Em] [Bm] Night after [C] night.
_ Don't know whether this is wrong or right.
[Am]
But here [G] I stand, baby.
[Am] With my head [Em] hanging so low.
I'm [Am] for real.
[D] Here [Em] I stand, baby.
_ [Am]
Baby, do you [G] know, _ [Am] _ [G] do you know I [Am] [D] remember when you were here with [E] me?
_ [Am]
[G] I remember when you were here, [Am] _ I remember [E] when you were here with me.
[Am] _ [Bm] I [Em] remember me and Mrs.
[Am] Jones, [E] _ I remember me and [Am] Mrs.
[D] Jones.
_ [C]
We had [Am] a thing going on, oh, [Em] we were carrying [Am] on, [E] we were carrying on.
[Am] I [G] know deep down inside, [Am] _ _ [D] I want you to help [Am] me, help _ [Bm] [Em] me, [Am] _ [G] help me. _
[Am] Come on and show me the [G] way, [Em] I'll tell you one more [Am] time, _ [E] show me the way.
[Am] _ I [G] _
_ [Am] _ [D] want [E] to know the way.
[Am] I'm standing [Bm] here with my head [Am] hanging _ _ _ [E]
in the [Am] air.
_ _ [E] I'm standing [Am] here, I'm standing here, [E] I'm standing here, [Am] me [Dm] and Mrs.
Jones.
[Em] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] I'm standing [Am] here, [G] _ I know we were [Am] wrong, I [C] just want some help.
_ [Am] _ Oh, _ _ _ _
[D] _ [E] baby, _ [Am] _ [Em] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ can you make [C] it matter, Fred?
_ [Am] _
_ [Bm] Can you, _ [D] _ can [C] you make it matter?
[Am] _ [G] _ [D] [G] Oh, can you make it matter? _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh, darling, [Cm] _ [Am] do you know what it [C] means to have someone [Am] need you, [G] want you? _
[B] [C] Oh, you cheated on me, you should not have left me [Am] here, _ [Em] _ should not have [Am] left me here.
Woo, _ _
[D] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ makes _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [Am] _ me want to [Bm] cry, [B] _ [Am] _
[E] _ _ _ [B] _ [Am] but [B] baby, I'm just a [Am] maid, [Dm] _ _ [G] I can't, [Am] _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ just a [Am] maid.
[G] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [Am] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _