Chords for Live: Dinah Washington - Lover, Come Back to Me / Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair

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_ [Cm] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ The [Eb] _ sky was blue [D] and [G] high above, [Cm] moon was new and so was love.
_ Your heart of mine was singing, well lover [Eb] where can you [C] be?
_ _ [Ab] You came at [D] last, love had its day, [Cm] it couldn't last and he'd gone away.
_ So now you'll hear me singing, _ honey please come on home to me.
I _ remember [G] every little thing we [Cm] used to do, [D] I am [Ab] doggone lonely.
[D] _ [Cm] Every road I walked alone, I was with you, no wonder I [Fm] am lonely.
_ [Cm] The [G] day has passed, [D] love had its day, [Cm] it couldn't last [Db] and my man's gone away.
[Fm] _
So now you'll hear me singing, [F] _ baby please come on [Eb] home to me.
[Cm] Oh well I remember every little [C] thing we [Cm] used to do, [Db]
I am [Ab] so lonely.
[D] _ Every [Cm] road I walked alone, I [F] was with you, no wonder I am lonely.
[C] _ _
The day has passed, _ [G] love had its day, [Cm] _
it couldn't [D] last and [Db] he's gone away. _
[Ab] So now when you [C] hear me singing, _ _ lover, [Bb] _ _ lover, _ _ lover come on _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] home.
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gb] _ Thank you so much ladies and gentlemen.
Right here I'd like to do a tune from an album called Dinah Sings, Bessie Smith.
_ _ [C]
I imagine back [F] in 1927, [Ab] _ _
[A] you [D] could hear [G] Bessie saying something like [Ab] this.
_ _ [A] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Bm] Judge your [Gm] honor, _ [A]
hear my [Am] plea.
_ _ [G] Before you open [C] up your court, [G] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Bm] I don't want [Gm] no sympathy.
_ [A] _ _ [D] Cause I just cut my good [G] man's throat. _ _ _ _
[Bm] I caught him [E] with one of them [Am] traveling James.
_ _ _ [Bm] _
I [E] warned him lots [Am] of times before. _
_ This time I pulled my [Gb] knife _ [G] and I went insane.
_ [Ab] _ _
Now [Am] the rest [D] you [G] already know.
_ _ _ _ [C] So judge, _ [Bm] _ _ _ [Gm] please Mr.
[A] Judge, _ _ [D] _ send me to the electric [C] chair.
_ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [E] Judge, _ _ [Gm] _
please [A] Mr.
Judge, _ [D] I just want to get away _ [Em] from here. _
_ [G] I want to take a [E] journey _
_ [C] to the devil [Eb] down below.
_ [F] _ I killed my [B] man, I want to reap what I sow.
[C] So judge, [Db] _ _ _ [Bb] please Mr.
[A] Judge, _ _ [D] _ send me [G] to the electric _ [C] chair.
_ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [A] Lordy, lordy judge, [D] _ _ [G] send me to the electric [C] chair.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _
Please [E] judge and [Gm] jury, _ _ [A] _
_ _ [Ebm] _ [D] _ you know I loved him [G] so dear.
_ _ But I [C] _ cut him with _ [C] _ _
my bylaw.
_ [F] _ Kept [E] him in his side, stood [D] and laughed while he died.
So [C] _ judge, [B] _
_ _ [Bb] _ lordy, [A] lordy judge, _ [D] _ send [G] me to the electric [C]
chair.
_ [G] _ One more [C] time I'm pleading, [E] _ _ pleading, _ pleading.
[A] Judge, _ _ [D] send me to [G] the electric [C] chair.
_ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ Uh [Bm]-huh, _ uh [Gm]-uh, _ [A] oh well.
_ [D]
Go ahead and burn me, cause I [G] don't care.
_ _ I [C] don't want no bondsman _ [Eb] to [C] _ [E] go my [F] bail.
Don't want to spend [Ab] no _ ninety-nine [B] years in jail.
[C] So _ judge, [B] _ judge, [D] _
please [A] Mr.
Judge, just [D] send me, _ well _ [Dm] send me to the electric [C] _ _ chair.
[E] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _