Chords for Johnnie Taylor - I'm Changing

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[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] I'm changing, _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ rewriting my _ [Gm] life.
_ I'm getting [Bb] rid of the [Dm] woman, yeah.
[Gm] _ _ [Bb] And stop cheating on my wife.
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
I've been running from the devil.
I've been running from [Gm] the wrong.
_ _ [Bb] I'm neglecting my home.
[Gm] _ _ I've always been everywhere.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [Bb] Woman, why'd I be gone?
[Gm] _ _ _ [Bb] Better looking for a woman like the one I've got at home.
Last night she asked me, baby, why you always [C] gone?
I'm [F] changing, _ _ _ [G] rearranging _ [Gm] my life.
Oh, baby, _ _ rearranging [Bb] my life.
_ [Gm] _ _ _
[Bb] Only a fool _ _ [Gm] _ is [Bb] a fool all his [F] [Gm] life. _ _
[Bb] What do you need with a [Gm] woman?
Don't tell me _ _ [Bb] when you're gonna say goodbye. _ _ _
I've been reading, _ _ _ [Gm] _
and [Bb] my wife has been beating.
[Gm] _ _
_ She didn't understand. _ _
_ [Bb] Oh, but she was waiting on me. _ _
_ _ [Bb] Man, don't you wait till she's tired of you.
And don't you forget what the men want her to.
I'm [F] changing, _ _ _ [G]
rearranging _ [Gm] my life.
Oh, baby, _ _ [Bb] rearranging my life.
Here's another [Gm] thing.
Look, _ _ [Bb] a woman must feel [Gm]
she's loved and [Bb] belonged.
That's her big deal.
Give it up while she's [C] gone.
I'm [F] changing, _ _ _
[G] rearranging my [Gm] life.
Oh, baby, _ rearranging [Bb] my life.
Oh, _ _ _ _ she's been my lady.
[Gm] _ _ _ [Bb] The mother of my baby.
[Gm] _ _ _ [Bb] She's the first one up in the morning [Gm] and the last one to bed.
[Bb] She takes good care.
I ain't gonna say what y'all think.
[Gm] I'm gonna say it.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ I ain't [Dm] some dirty in my.
_ _ _ [Bb] Rearranging my life.
I'm changing, rearranging my life.
You [Gm] _ _ _ [Bb] can't tell me no more [Dm] about sin, I'm baby.
_ _ _ [Bb] Give it all I left in [Dm] my wife.
_ _ I'm changing, [Gm] changing, changing.
_ _ _ [Bb] Rearranging my life.
_ _ _ [Bb] I'm getting ready for war.
That [Gm] lady just laughed when I said that.
_ [Bb] I'm getting ready for war.
[Dm]
You think I should?
_ [Bb] I'm talking to you, lady. _
I'm talking to you.
_ I'm talking to you, lady.
Put [Gm] your earrings on.
_ _ [Bb] Huh?
What do you think [Gm] a man should do in a case like that, darling? Do _ [Bb] what?
_ [Dm] _
_ _ Are [Bb] you changing?
_ [Gm] _
_ Rearranging?
Are [Bb] you changing, [Dm] changing, changing?
Wait a minute.
How many women gonna give up their man? _
_ Y'all got off the quiet.
[Bb] _ _ How many [G] women here gonna give up their man tonight?
You [Bb] ain't gonna do that, girl.
Huh?
You don't give up your outside love?
All right.
How many fellas here [Gm] gonna give up their outside woman?
_ _ [Bb] That's a cool head, man, cool [Gm] head.
_ _ Well, [Bb] I didn't mean to run you off, baby.
I didn't mean to run [Gm] you off the place.
_ _ [Bb] I'm changing, changing, [Gm]
changing.
_ _ _ [Bb] Rearranging my [Gm] life.
I _ [Bb] didn't run that woman out of the place, y'all. _
[Gm] _ _ _ [Bb] She's going home to her husband.
[Gm] _ _ [Bb] Are you changing? _
Rearranging?
_ [Gm] Are you [Bb] changing, changing, [Dm] changing, changing?
[Bb] Whoa, my, my, my, my, my, my. _
[Gm] _ _ Bring it [Bb] down.
_ Lord, I miss her.
You know, sometimes it gets so lonely.
_ [Gm]
Oh, now.
Feel [Bb] like your time [Dm] ain't long.
_ _ _ _ [Dm] Honey, don't, honey, _ [Bb] don't go away.
_ [Gm] _
_ _ _ Do you hear, _ [Dm]
do you hear _ [Bb] what I say? _
[Gm] What I say?
_ [Bb] Give me time, give me time.
[Gm] _ [Bb] And I'll make your love as [Gm] strong as mine.
_ [Bb] But honey, Rome _ [Gm] wasn't _ built [Bb] in a day. _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] How would Romeo [D] feel if his [Gm] Juliet
had _ [Bb] turned on his advances [Gm] and played hard to get?
_ [Bb] He would not let this bother [Gm] him.
This I know, _ [Bb] because where there's life, there's hope. _ _ _ _ _
[C] Don't go [Gm] _ [Bb] away.
I want y'all to help me say this.
I love this song.
Do you hear, do you hear [Gm] _ [Bb] what I say?
Tell me [Gm] what I say.
_ [Bb] All I need is a little more [Gm] time.
_ _ [Bb] And I'll make your love as [Gm] strong as mine.
_ [Bb] But honey, Rome [Gm] wasn't built _ [Bb] in a day. _
[Gm] No, no, no.
_ [Bb] _ If I had a hammer, [Gm] _ _ _ [Bb] I'd put a hammer in the morning.
[Dm] _
_ _ _ [Bb] Hammer in the evening.
[Dm] _ _
_ _ _ All over this land. _
[Gm] _ _ I'd [Bb] hammer out danger. _ _
You know what I'm saying?
[Gm] I'd hammer out a wounded, wounded, wounded.
_ _ I'd hammer out love between [Gm]
my brothers and my sisters.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ All [Bb] over this land.
We're gonna take [Gm] a night, ladies and gentlemen.
_ _ [Bb] We're gonna leave you, darling.
We love you.
[Gm] _
But we gotta go.
Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh, _ _ I love you, I [Bb] love you, I love you, I love you, I [Gm] love you, I love you.
_ _ [Bb] I love you.
_ _ [Gm] _
_ [Bb] For sentimental reasons.
I'm gonna take a [Gm] night, baby.
We love you so much.
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _