TAKE IT OFF THE SCREEN
Print the sheet for the piano stand, or load the MIDI into any app and practise at your own tempo.
HOW TO PLAY
- 1Put your right thumb on middle C. Most beginner songs stay under five fingers — you never move your hand.
- 2Set the speed down and turn CLICK on. Press each key exactly when the note reaches the line.
- 3Loop the bar that keeps breaking until it feels easy, then add the left hand and take the speed back up.
LYRICS
Bust ed flat in Bat on Rouge,
wait in’ for a train, when I’s feel in’ near as fad ed as my jeans.
Bob by thumbed a die sel down just be fore it rained.
It rode us all the way in to New Or (G)leans.
I pulled my har poon out of my dirt y red ban dan a.
I was play in’ soft while Bob by sang the blues,
yeah.
Wind shield wip ers slap pin’ time, I’s hold in’ Bob by’s hand in mine; (D)we sang ev ’ry song that driv er knew, yeah.
(C)Free dom’s just an oth er word for noth in’ left to lose.
(D7)Noth in’, I mean noth in’, hon’, if (D7)it ain’t (G)free, no, no.
Yeah, (C)feel in’ good was eas y, Lord,
when he sang the blues.
You know, (D7)feel in’ good was good e nough for me,
(D)good e nough for me an’ my Bob by Mc (G)Gee.
From the Ken tuck y coal mine (D)to the (A)Cal i for nia sun,
hey, Bob by shared the se crets of my soul.
Through all kinds of weath er, through ev ’ry thing we done,
yeah, Bob by ba by kept me from the cold.
One (A)day a near Sa lin as, Lord,
I let him slip a way.
He’s look in’ for that home and I hope he (D)finds it.
But I’d trade all of my to mor rows for one (A)sin gle yes ter day to be (E)hold in’ Bob by’s bod y next to mine.
(D)Free dom’s just an oth er word for noth in’ left to lose.
(E)Noth in’, and that’s all that Bob by left me, yeah.
But if (D)feel in’ good was eas y, Lord,
when he sang the blues, hey, (E)feel in’ good was good e nough for me,
mm hmm,
(E7)good e nough for me and my Bob by Mc (A)Gee.
La da da da, la da da da, la da da da da da da,
la da da da la da la da Bob by Mc Gee, yeah.
La da la la la la,
la da da da da,
la la la la la Bob by Mc (A)Gee.
La da da la da da la da da la da da, la da lo la da da la da la, hey now, Bob by, lo now, Bob by Mc Gee, yeah.
Lo na lo na na lo na, na, lo na na na na na na na na na na na na na na, hey now, Bob by, lo now, Bob by Mc Gee,
yeah.
And then when I called him my lov er, called him my man; I said I called him my lov er, did the best I can.
Come on, hey now, Bob by, now, hey now, Bob by Mc Gee, yeah.
Lo la lo la lo la lo la lo la lo la lo la lo lo, ley, hey, hey, Bob by Mc Gee,
Lord.
SONG INFO
- Level
- 5 of 5
- Key
- G
- Tempo
- 85 BPM
- Plays
- 22
- Chords
- A A7 C D D7 E E7 G
- Category
- Pop
- Artist
- Janis Joplin