Chords for I Can Take Care of Myself - Billy Vera & the Beaters with Johnny Carson 1987

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_ [N] Okay, my next guest, on to _ _ my _ _ _ next Billy Vera and the Beaters had the number one song in
the country a couple of weeks ago, a tune called At This Moment, and their album is
called By Request.
It's in the top 20.
They've just released a new single from this album, a song called I Can Take Care of Myself.
Would you welcome, please, Billy Vera and the Beaters. _ _
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I _ _ _ can [Gm] take care of [C] myself.
[Gm] My friends all [C] say I ought to [F] think twice.
[Am] _ _ [F] _ _ [Am] I can take care of [D] myself.
[Am] I don't [D] need [G] nobody's advice.
You're [E] so nice.
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Attempt to charm you [Dm] met with little [C] success.
_ [F] I [C] never met someone [Dm] so hard to [C] regress.
[F] Until [C] one day my tent saw my address.
[F] The [C] next day you had [D] on your [E] lowest address. _ _ _
_ But I can [Gm] take care of [C] myself.
[Gm] My friends all [C] say I ought to [F] think twice.
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[F] _ _ [Am] I can take care of [D] myself.
[Am] I don't [D] need [G] nobody's advice.
You're [E] so nice.
[Dm] Oh, play the song.
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[E] _ _ _ _ [F] _ [E] could be correct [Dm] in their judgment [C] of you.
[F] Maybe [C] you'll take me [Dm] and make [C] me a fool.
[F] But [C] I'm a big boy and I know what to do.
[F] It [C] might be worth it [D] to wake up next [E] to you.
_ _ Oh, I [Gm] can take care of myself.
My friends all [C] say I ought to think twice.
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[Am] I can take care of [D] myself.
I don't need [G] nobody's advice.
_ [E] I _ _ [Dm] can take care of myself.
I [A] don't need [C] nobody's advice.
[E] Oh, _ I [Dm] can take care of myself.
_ I [D] don't need [C] nobody's advice.
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I [Dm] can take care of myself.
_ I don't need nobody's [E] advice.
_ _ [C] Yeah.
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_ _ How are you?
Good. _
Good to have you back again.
Good to be here.
I was talking to you.
Do you want to get this commercial out of the way first?
Then we'll talk about it. Okay.
Stay where you are.
We'll be right back. _ _
_ _ I'll be right back. _ _ _
_ Last time we were here, we were talking in the hall.
Your dad, I know your dad, Bill McCord, right?
Yeah.
Worked at NBC as an announcer for many, many years out of New York, right?
35 years at NBC until he retired.
And your mom, I believe, was a singer?
She was one of the Ray Charles singers on the Perry Como show for many years.
And she used to keep an autograph book for me when I was about 11, 12 years old,
which I happened to bring because there happened to be two autographs right here
that she never got for me.
You and Ed.
I mean, I got Fats Domino, I got Steve Allen, I got Satchmo.
I'll be happy to do that for your mom.
Yeah.
Let me be honest.
We'll do that, right?
It'll thrill me to death.
You keep in contact with your father?
Are they both still living?
Yeah, yeah.
He lives in San Diego.
I'm not going to bother him.
And she lives in Florida.
And a funny thing my mother did recently when the record was out,
she called me up one day and she said,
_ she said, you know, I've been calling the radio station every day
and telling them that your record, you know, play your record.
She said, but I don't tell them I'm your mother.
Of course.
I told them you're going to be on Carson.
I told them all this.
I said, well, Ma, tell them you're my mother.
They'll get a kick out of it, you know?
That's funny.
She called me back later.
She said, she said, what would you call them?
They want you to call back and do a promo on there.
So I did this promo.
And they said, what do you want me to say?
We'll say this is such and such a radio station.
And I'm Billy Bear, blah, blah, blah.
I said, this is the station my mother listens to.
That's funny.
It's nice to have your mother support you like that, though.
Yeah, it's great.
You really follow stations.
I was reading this article, it was an LA Weekly about you.
Your career had a strange swing.
You know, the 60s, I mean, bang.
And then the 70s were like wreck, right, for you?
I couldn't make it in the 70s.
I couldn't get arrested.
Just like you went through a musical period and was out of it for a while.
Yeah, I had a few hit records as an artist in the 60s.
You know, we played the Apollo Theater.
I sang with a woman named Judy Clay, who was a cousin of Dionne Warwick and Whitney Houston.
And not many white artists played the Apollo for quite a while, right?
That's true.
I loved it.
They would put us on first because they didn't know how we'd go over.
_ And they always put the worst act on first. _ _ _ _
In live programs.
_ And then they'd put us, after the first day, we went over okay.
So they put us on next to the star.
Yeah.
Then you turn around and you wrote a song in collaboration with somebody else, I think, for Dolly Parton?
Yeah, I wrote that alone, actually, yeah.
And it was my first number one record as a songwriter.
I really got the feeling.
This must be nice to have this kind of acceptance again after having that real fallow period.
And all of a sudden be back and be hot again.
I'll tell you.
It's like, I feel like Lazarus.
Yeah.
Now the album is in the top 20, right?
Yeah, number 16 this week.
I'm just thrilled with that.
Next time you come back, we didn't have time to do it tonight, but next time you come back, would you do the one that you did before?
At this moment?
At this moment.
Because that's what really kicked it off.
Yeah.
That goes back when?
_ _ I wrote that song in _ 78.
Right.
And we recorded it in 81.
Right.
And it bombed and now it came back.
That's great.
[A#] We're going to take a break.
We'll be right back.
Stay where you are.
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