Chords for John Lee & Earl Hooker - Have Mercy On My Soul

_ _ _ _ _ [A] I _ _ have mercy _ [Am] on _ _
_ [A] _ _ my _ _ _ soul. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] When my first wife left me, boy, put _ _ [C] me out on the highway. _
[A] _ _ _ _ [C] When my first wife left me, left me, _ _ [D] _ put me out on the [A] highway.
_ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ [F] Ever since that [D] day, _ my life ain't been the same to me [A] no more.
I _ _ _ _
[Em] _ [A] _ _ [Am] had a good girl, _ _ _ _ good as she could be. _ _ _ _
_ I had a good girl, good girl, [Em] _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ but the reason she loved [E] me,
[Am] I wanted every woman that I seen.
_ [A] Yes, I did. _ _
Watch this now.
_ _ _ [Am] I was drinking and gambling, drinking and gambling.
_ Ever since my wife been gone,
[A] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ [Am] _
[E] I _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _
found a [A] highway, a highway I've been my home.
Yes, yes. _ _ _ _ _ _
Look at here now.
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [A] _ _
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_ [D] Look at here now.
_ I'm sitting down thinking this morning about _ my [A] wife and child. _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [A] Sitting [F] down thinking this [Am] morning, boy, about my wife and child.
[D] I want _ to go back home so bad, _ till I just [A] don't know what to do. _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [Am] _ I left my wife and my baby.
_ _ [A] My baby [Am] girl was only four days old.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ I left my [D] wife and my baby.
_ [Am] My little girl was only four days old.
[A] _ [Am] _ _
_ Don't you know, boy, just one thing.
[C#] Lord just keeps on [Am] worrying me.
_ [A] Yes, it do.
Look at here what I hope now. _ _
I hope my little baby girl have learned to call the Lord her man daddy.
_ _ And boy, that's what keeps on worrying me.
_ [Am] _ Just one thing hurts me so bad.
And that keeps on worrying [D] me.
_ [A] _ _ _
I hope my little girl have learned [D] to call the Lord her man daddy. _ _
Lord, and that's what keeps on [A] worrying me.
_ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] I want to go back home. _
I want to go back home so bad.
_ [Am] _ _ [A] _ _
I want to go back home.
_ [Am] I want to go back home so bad. _
_ _ _ _ [D] I want to get my wife and my baby back again.
I want to go back home to stay.
Yes, yes.
[Am] _ Here's what I said to my wife.
_ [A] I said, baby, [Am] _ _
[A] I ain't going to drink and gamble no more.
I said, _ _ baby, baby, _ [Am] drink and gamble, drink and gamble no more. _ _
_ _ [Am] I want to stay at home with you, baby.
[A] Live like a married man, [D] sugar.
_ _ _ I said, baby, _
[A] [E] teach my little baby girl.
Teach her, teach her [A] how to call me daddy one more time.
_ [A] _ Baby, teach my little baby girl to call me [F#m] daddy just [A] one more time.
Baby, _ I've been gone so long, so long, she forgot my name.
_ Please [G] teach her how to call me daddy one more [A] time.
Please teach her that I'm her daddy.
[G] _ [A] Baby.
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