Verse
Fm C A#m C Fm
I've got something that my baby wants
C A#m C Fm C#
And I've got something that my baby wants
C Fm
And she's got something that I want too
C# C Fm
Baby and I are through
C
I've been down to the bottom
A#m C Fm
With a bad, bad man
C
Down to the bottom, babe
A#m C C#
With a bad, bad man
[Chorus]
Fm
Lay me down with your gentle hand
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C A#m C A#m C C# C Fm
[Verse]
C A#m C
Well, he said this darkness, it was untrue
Fm C
And first he said this darkness
A#m C
Darlin', it was untrue
C# C Fm C#
And that there was no light to be found in you
[Chorus]
C Fm
But I know, darlin', that that's not true
[Verse]
C
And I had a dream so black
A#m C Fm
That I could not tell
C
Oh, honey, I had a dream so dark
A#m C C#
That I could not tell
[Chorus]
C C# Fm
But I know that's just as well
[Instrumental]
C A#m C Fm A#m C C# C Fm
[Verse]
C
And I don't know, babe
A#m C Fm
Just where you've been
C
I don't know, darlin'
A#m C
Just where you've been
C# C
But I've hung myself heavy here
C# C Fm Fm
Babe, I don't know where the hell I am
[Verse]
C
I thought that man, babe
A#m C Fm
He might have something that I need
I thought that man, darlin'
A#m C
He might have something that I need
[Chorus]
C# C
But he had no anger
F
For you or for me
C# C
And, babe, I swear
Fm
That man never even knew I was here
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C A#m C Fm A#m C C# C Fm
[Verse]
C
Some of these friends of mine
A#m C Fm
How I miss them so
C
Good Lord, these sweet friends of mine
A#m C
How I miss them so
[Chorus]
C# C
But some of these, others beg
C# C
Well they're driving me around
On some cold, dark, and strange
Fm
And deathly roads
[Verse]
C
Take me down to your river
A#m C Fm
I want to see how it runs
C
Down to your river, darlin'
A#m C Fm
I want to know just how it runs
C# C
But if that man waits on the path
C# C Fm C#
Then I know for good that I'm done
C
And I got a feeling
C# C Fm
That man, he's just begun