Chords for José James - Lean On Me (Album Trailer)

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_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] Whenever it was that it hit you to inhabit Bill Withers' songs, [A] I knew we were off to
something really exciting.
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ It's been wild to see [A] you _ _ [G] transform them into your own thing, [E] which of course is the
big challenge, right?
Big challenge.
Because you [Dm] don't want to [G] be karaoke Bill Withers, right?
[Eb] No, Lord, no.
Not while he's around.
_ So [A] what's your attitude towards making [Em] them your own songs?
_ Those songs _ [A] have the strength to be interpreted.
_ _ If these songs weren't [D] so strong, I couldn't come [Em] and interpret them. _ _
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But we took some of them apart, put them back together, [A] and they are _ [E] just as beautiful
as when he recorded them.
And to me, that's the real testament of his genius, because they sound just as powerful
and as beautiful and as poignant, I think, _ today as they did when he recorded them.
Absolutely.
They're absolutely timeless songs.
_ _ _ Timeless, that's the word I was going to say.
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Wonder if she's gone.
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_ [Am] _ It's not warm when she's away.
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[A] _ _ Ain't no sunshine [Em] when she's gone.
And she's always gone [Dm] too long in the time she goes [Am] away.
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[Am] _ _ Wonder this [G] time [Am] where she's gone.
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_ Wonder if she's [E] [Am] gonna stay.
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Ain't no sunshine when she's [Em] gone.
And this house just ain't [F] no home in the time she goes away.
[G] I was there, man.
I saw at [Dm] least three of your shows.
The response was outstanding, [C] as good as anything I've ever heard.
[D] Oh, thanks, man.
It feels like _ [G] church.
I mean, you do lean on me.
We did it at the Kennedy Center last weekend.
_ It just feels like church.
It feels like people are singing.
_ People are waving their hands.
And it's the first time, really, I've
been _ involved in something that feels way bigger than myself.
Like, I'm just _ tapped into [Eb] this whole [Em] beautiful, spiritual,
musical _ environment that has existed from before I was born
and will exist [A] when I'm gone.
So I feel it's a real honor to be a part of it.
_ And that's the [E] thing. _ _
Everybody loves Bill's music.
Everybody. _
[Am] Lean on [N] me.
Ain't no sunshine.
Lovely day.
Just the two of us.
Grandma's hands.
It's like, _ somebody asked me, when did you first
hear Bill's music?
And I said, I don't remember not hearing Bill's [C] music.
It's just always been there.
That's interesting.
You know? _ _ _ _
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[F] _ [C] Lean on me _ _ when [Em] you're [F] not strong. _
And [C] I'll [Dm] be [C] your friend. _
_ I'll [Em] help you _ _ [G] carry _ _ _ [C] on.
For _ _ [Dm] it [Em] won't [F] be _ long till [C] I'm [Dm] [C] gonna _ need _ _ [Dm] [Em] somebody [G] to _ _ _
[C] lean on. _ _ _ _ _
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