Chords for AM I BLUE? by Ray Charles & Dick Cavett

_ _ _ _ _ _ Take a lesson, Ray.
What's _ _ up, man?
How we gonna set it going?
_ _ _ Yeah.
_ _ _ [Ab] I really, um_ _
_ Ray, I_
It's, uh_
It's just your luck
that you'd be here on a night when my throat's a little scratchy.
Uh-uh, that's all right, baby.
Mine is too.
Don't worry about [F] that.
It's all right.
[B] No, I_
Listen, otherwise, we could have done
a medley of down-home favorites, uh_
Down-home favorites?
I, uh_
It would be_
It would be smarter to play chess with Bobby Fischer
than for me to try to sing with you.
Oh, speak of the_
Do you play chess, really?
No, I know you do, though.
I mean, the regular chess.
You mean the chess_
Right, with the cards and queens.
No, no, I don't play that.
But I know you do.
Yes, I [Eb] love that.
I really do.
But about our singing together,
I know a lot of people would be disappointed,
except me, if we don't.
But you know what it is?
What I would wonder about, though, since I can't sing_
No, no, no, no, no, no.
We got to have at least
five bars of something.
[N] Well_
Now, at least_
I won't let you get away
without at least five bars.
The audience will have to go to five bars if we_ _ _
No, I promise.
I think they missed that.
What is it about a voice?
I mean, _ if you heard my voice
and had never seen me before,
could you tell whether I was black or white?
_ You know, that's interesting.
You should ask that.
Why do they laugh at that? _ _ _
_ _ I guess I _ probably_
Well, no, I really couldn't,
because it really would depend
on where you came from.
Go on.
No, really, you know, there are many people
who_
It's a matter of how that diction is,
you know, what is traditional.
Now, you see, I know many black people
who speak very, very, very well.
And you could be fooled by_
Oh, sure.
You cannot tell.
It's impossible.
I don't think you could tell
whether Ralph Bunche was black or white.
But you_
I would think you could, for some reason.
I don't know what it is.
No, I'm not going to lie like that.
Are you _ going to tell me that Tom Jones fooled you?
I don't know what Tom Jones is.
I_
[Bb] _ _ _ No, [Abm] I_
Seriously, though, I actually think,
though, that it really depends.
There are many people who speak_
And on the other hand, I know very many articulate people
who you know right away, though,
if they're black, because there's something
about their accent.
They [A] come from_
They live in the South
for so long.
And it's just like
many people who
come from the [G] South and
say, like, they live in
[N] Mississippi or Alabama,
and they come to northern radio stations
and they go on the air.
And you can tell right away, because you can_
I don't care how hard they try to keep_
There's always a little twang
somewhere in their voice,
you see, where you know.
So it really depends on the individual.
It's when they say, ladies and gentlemen, here's an excellent product
for your hi-ya.
Yeah, exactly.
_ Exactly.
You're right on, baby.
Let's make an experiment.
Now, let's see.
There are five_
There are seven people here.
Let's ask the audience here to close
their eyes, and the audience at home to close
their eyes, and see if you can tell
who sings_
Who the next voice is singing.
You all have your eyes shut. _
Okay, go.
[D] _ [C] Am I blue?
_ [Ab] I got you, Tina.
Am I [Bbm] blue?
_ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ In [Ab] these
_ tears?
[Gb]
In these [Bb] eyes?
_ _ _ Wait a minute, I [F] said_
[Ab] _ Oh, you cheated.
Didn't I do that nice?
I [N] think that's good.
Did you _ _ know_
_ That's really great.
[Eb] _ _ _
Once [Ab] I _ _ _ _ _ [F] gave_
_ Once I gave_ Till [Bbm] today_ Till today_
_ _ [Db] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ Now [Ab] she's gone_
Now she's _ [Bm] _
_ _ [Cm] gone_
[Bb] Through the road, baby, now_
Through the road, baby, _ now_
[Eb] _ _ Am [Ab]
I_
_ [Db] _ _ _ [Ab] Go ahead, now.
There was [G] a time_
There was a [Cm] _
time_
_ _ _ _ Go ahead.
I was the only _ _ one_
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
There was a _ [Cm] time_ _ _
Yeah, [F] lonely one_
Hang in there, baby.
[Bbm] Get it!
_ _ [Eb] Once I [Ab] gave_ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Bbm] Till today_
[Db] _ [Eb] _ _
_ Now she's gone_
_ [Cm] _
_ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ Can you sing all together now?
_ _ [E] _ _ And_
[Eb] _ _
_ _ You go first, now. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ That's all right, guys.
I gotta tell the people at home,
you can open your eyes now.
It was me all the time.
We have a brief message.
We'll be [Cm] right back.
Thank you.
That's all right.
_ _ [Db] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [C] _