
Dr Feelgood
Aretha Franklin
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Tom : G
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
Goooooood!!!!!!
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