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