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Dr Feelgood by Aretha Franklin

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Music and Lyrics by Aretha Franklin and Ted White


[Verse 1]

G7     
  I don’t / want nobody
C9      
          / Always
G7
          / Sitting around / me and my man / 

C7
  I don’t / want nobody    /               / Always
G7          Am                    Bm             E7
          / sitting right there /   Looking at / me and that man

A7                                               C7
          / Be it my mother, my brother, or my / sister /      Would you believe? 

G            G/B             C         C#dim        
I’ll get up,   put on some / clothes / Go out and
D
Help them find / somebody for themselves if I can. Yes I will!

[Chorus] 

G
          / Now I don’t mind company
C7
          / Because company’s al-
G7
right with me every once and a while /   / Yes it is. /
C7
  I tell you / I don’t mind company /    / Because company’s alright with
G7                         Am          Bm             E7
Me every once in a while /


[Bridge]

A7                   C7
Ohhhhhhh/hhh, when / me and that man get to loving - I tell you girls

G           G/B              C         C#dim        
 I dig you, but I just don’t have time
D
To sit and chit and sit and chit chat and smile.


[Verse 2]

G
Don’t send me no doctor
G
Filling me up with all of those pills
G
I got me a man named ‘Dr. Feelgood’
G7
And oh, yeah that man takes care of all my 

C9
Pains and my ills. His name is Dr. Feelgood in the morning.
G                                Am          Bm             E7
Taking care of business is really this man’s game.

A7
And after one visit to Dr. Feelgood
C7                   D7              G
You’d understand why Feelgood is his name
Oh yeah, oh 
good God Almighty the man sure makes me feel real