Thing Called Love chords by Bonnie Raitt

Sugar Mama (Daddy)
Delbert McClinton / Home Plate 1975

As recorded by Bonnie Raitt on the album Home Plate 1975

5
Sittin' here ...
/                             1
While yer lookin' ...
         /
Somebody ...
5                 /
Me lovin' you and ...
1                                     /
And you not knowin' ...
4         /
Why do you treat ...
/         /
  Hurt so ...
1                       /
All you wanna do is ...
/                        /
You don't even ...
5

Sittin' here ...
/                               1
Knowin' yer ...

5                 /             1    /
Ain't gonna be ...
5                  /                 1      /
You can't have ...
4                  /
All you pretty ...
1                      /
I just want ...
5                /              1      /
Ain't gonna be ...

Sittin' here...
              ....your...
All you ......
                    ...no m...
Ain't...

(in A; 2=half note, 4=qrt note, 8=eighth note)
intro    88 82 | 88 8 82
         gf#e-   rg f#e-
88 88  |       | 88 8 8 4. | 4 4    4 8   8 | 4888888
rc#dd#  e        rc#d d#e    a /c# /d /d# e


[Number system for any key: in C, 1=C, 2=D-, 3=E-, etc.]
[Bass notes are key scale numbers: in C, 1=C, 2=D, 3=E, etc.]
[Number in parens = vocal notes from key scale: in C, 1=C, 2=D, 3=E,
etc.]

| = bar line; / = play same as previous chord
No bar line = chord gets entire measure's time
Within bar lines chords divide measure accordingly
/^/ = split the beat (ex.:  /^G7)

transcribed by OtMan Otto Marten marten@sky.net