You Got To Know How chords by Bonnie Raitt

Chords with lyrics

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               YOU GOT TO KNOW HOW - Bonnie Raitt
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Artist: Bonnie Raitt
Song: You've Got to Know How (originally sung by Sippie Wallace

SOURCE
Bonnie Raitt - "You Got to Know How"
Album: Give It Up

AUTHOR:
Tab by Jim Scheel

NOTES
The song is a 16 bar blues. The first verse is different from the other verses and
there is a bridge. The second, third and final verses are the same.
I play this with bar chords and a lazy vamp style.

I listed the chords two ways. The first is broken down by measures, so you
can count out the changes if you want. | FF | is one measure (4 beats) of "F".

The second ways below that is the chords above the lyrics.

TUNING
Standard Tuning

CHORDS (All Bar Chords)
FF ====133211
C7===x35353
Bb===x13331
A7===575655
Bb7==686766
G7===353433

Intro:
| FF | FF | A7A7 | Bb7Bb7 | G7G7 | C7C7 | FF | FF |

First Verse:
| FF | FF | C7C7 | C7C7 | C7C7 | C7C7 | FF | FF |

| FF | FF | Bb majorBb | Bb majorBb | G7G7 | G7G7 | C7C7 | C7C7 |

Second Verse:
| FF | FF | C7C7 | C7C7 | C7C7 | C7C7 | FF | FF |

| FF | FF | A7A7 | Bb7Bb7 | G7G7 | C7C7 | FF | FF |

Third Verse:
| FF | FF | C7C7 | C7C7 | C7C7 | C7C7 | FF | FF |

| FF | FF | A7A7 | Bb7Bb7 | G7G7 | C7C7 | FF | FF |

Bridge:
| Bb majorBb | Bb majorBb | FF | FF | G7G7 | G7G7 | C7C7 | C7C7 |

| FF | FF | A7A7 | Bb7Bb7 | G7G7 | C7C7 | FF | FF |

Break
| FF | FF | C7C7 | C7C7 | C7C7 | C7C7 | FF | FF |

| FF | FF | A7A7 | Bb7Bb7 | G7G7 | C7C7 | FF | FF |

Fourth Verse
| FF | FF | C7C7 | C7C7 | C7C7 | C7C7 | FF | FF |

| FF | FF | A7A7 | Bb7Bb7 | G7G7 | C7C7 | FF | FF |

Outro
| G7G7 | C7C7 | FF | FF |

WITH THE WORDS:
(Verse)
FF
You can make me do what you wanna do
    C7C7
But you got to know how,

You can make me cry, you can make me sigh,
    FF
But you got to know how,
                   Bb majorBb
You can make me do like this, you can make me do like that,
G7G7               C7C7
Woh, baby, but you got to know how.

(Verse)
    FF
Once a pal of mine stole a guy of mine,
   C7C7
But I got him back, now,

It's the same old song, she couldn't keep him long,
      FF
'Cause she didn't know how.

Well, I love my man, I make him holler,
A7A7  Bb7Bb7
Woh, my,
G7G7    C7C7      FF
Yessir, I really know how.

(Verse)
FF
Technique ain't tough, if you care enough,
    C7C7
You can learn to know how,

I might drop a hint how to strike my flint
    FF
If you yearn to know how,

Well, don't tell me about the life you led,
A7A7          Bb7Bb7
Don't try to drink me into bed,
G7G7      C7C7         FF
No, baby, no, that ain't the way how.

(Bridge)
Bb majorBb
You got to take your time, you know it ain't no crime
   FF
If it lasts all night.
         G7G7
I think you'll be ideal when you begin to feel
      C7C7
That you're doin' right.
FF
When you love me right, you hear me holler,
A7A7  Bb7Bb7
Woh, my,
G7G7   C7C7          FF
Yessir, when you really know how.

(Break)
| FF | FF | C7C7 | C7C7 | C7C7 | C7C7 | FF | FF |

| FF | FF | A7A7 | Bb7Bb7 | G7G7 | C7C7 | FF | FF |

(Verse)
FF
And if you stay with me, who knows how it will be
    C7C7
When we finally know how,

We'll get a house in town, no need to move around
    FF
When we really know how,

Well, there's tricks that I don't even know,
A7A7       Bb7Bb7
Ones we'll make up as we go.
G7G7      C7C7         FF
Woh, mister, when we really know how.
G7G7      C7C7         FF
Yes, mister, when we really know how.