Chords for Johnnie Taylor Doing My Own Thing Part 1

_ [Bb] Live it like you wanna live it, _ give it like you wanna give it, love it like you wanna love it, [Bbm] _ hold it like you [Bb] wanna hold it.
I'm gonna express myself, [E] mmm yeah. _
_ [Gb] It [Bb] make me so mad, every [Bbm] time I turn my back, _ [Eb] people are talking about Johnny Taylor, [Ebm] they say I'm doing this and that, [Bb] but [Gm] that don't bother me cause [C] I'm [F] not bothering you.
_ [D] I'm doing my own thing, that's all I wanna do.
_ [Gb] _ [F] I go out and [Bb] get drunk every night and [Eb] day, if I don't throw no beer [Ab] can in your backyard, [Gb] what have you got to say?
Let [G] me do my thing, [C] that's [F] all _ I wanna do.
_ [Ab] Here's [D] another thing, _ [Bb] put _ _ [Bb] your hot pants on, [Eb] _ you said she oughta be whipped [Ebm] _ for ever leaving home, but leave her [Bb] alone y'all, she's just [G] doing her own thing.
[C] What's [F] wrong with big fat sluts doing their own thing?
_ [Gb] You know what, here's another thing, [Bb] I wanna tell you about a friend of mine, she was 92 years old, one thing I liked about her, she sure had a whole lot of soul.
I said girl folks are talking about you, all in your neighborhood, _ all them young men you [Eb] got, they sure don't [Bb] mean you no good.
She told me one thing, _ if I lived to be 99, _ if young men killed [Eb] me, you know she told [Bb] me, she said, I sure don't mind.
_ That's when I made up my mind, I made up my mind that same day I was gonna do my own thing.
[Eb] [Bb] Live like I wanna live, go where I wanna go, play where I wanna play, you know what I mean?
Live like I wanna live, because I'm deaf.
I'm doing my own thing, I'm doing my own thing, please don't stop me, I'm doing my own thing.
I'm doing my own thing, I'm doing my own thing, I'm doing _ _ my _ own thing. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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