Kris Kristofferson - Isle of Wight Festival 1970 - Me and Bobby McGee Chords

[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I'm feeling real stupid right now as a matter of fact.
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Anyway Donnie was there [G] from the second _ second [N] gig on and he was the only one [Gm] who would never left.
[G] _
Couldn't run me off.
[Abm] I think that was the [G]
hell our [Ab] fourth [G] gig was [A] was [F] uh
[Eb] the Isle of [C] Wight.
Yeah with a half a million people who hated us.
_ _ They [Gm] were gonna kill [Ab] us but they hated everybody there.
Yeah that night they hated everybody.
They even hated Jimi Hendrix.
It was [Em] awful.
But I closed the set with [Bbm] me and Bob [Eb] McGee
and walked off giving a half a million people the [Gb] finger. _
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Can you hear me out there or not?
I [N] can't sing real loud. _
_ _ Does that mean yes or no?
Hey man.
_ We're gonna do uh we're gonna do two more [G] in spite of anything except rifle fire.
We _ [N] _ just _ _ _ _ _ work here you know.
_ _ [Eb] _ I think they're gonna [G] shoot us. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Just before it rained. _
_ Took us all away to New [G] Orleans. _ _ _ _ _ _
I took my half moon out of my dirty red
bandana.
It was blowing sad while Bobby sang.
[C] _
_ _ _ _ With them windshield wipers slapping time [G] and
Bobby clapping hands we [D] finally sang a piece of song that [G] driving _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ freedom's just another [A] word for
nothing left to lose.
[Ab]
[Gbm] That's [E] all we got nothing left it's all she left [A] for me.
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Feeling good was easy [A] lord when Bobby sang the blues.
_ [E] _ But if that was good enough for me _ _ _
_ _ good enough for me [A] Bobby _ McGee _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ la la la
There _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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[Ab] _ [A] _ we _ _ _ _
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_ go that was Chris Christopherson. _
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Well it's probably the basic problem of having to stand
up in front of people and expose yourself your soul _ and _ [Eb] _ _ _
it's uh _ I _ _ guess the the problem is what
you have is is _ _ _ insecure _ _ basically _ _ _ uncomfortable _ _ _ _ people.
_ _ It's it's hard to get up in front of _ _ _ _ _
people anyway.
_ _ They say that's one of the scariest things a human can do is get up _ in front of people
and _ _ _ do anything perform or _ but especially if you're if _ you're exposing the stuff that comes right out
of your soul _ _ and if you got any honesty about you while you're doing it I guess it's a vulnerable
position to be in _ and so you _ _ _ anesthetize yourself to that experience _ _ and and that medicine _ _
whether it's whiskey or pills or whatever _ _ uh _ _ _ _ _ exaggerates the problem or any problems that you
have. _ _ _
[G] I don't know whether I don't think it helps the art _ I think it probably helps the person _ do it
in _ _ _ _ front of people.
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_ _ _ [Cm] I _ _ _
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haven't really figured that out you know I haven't figured out what what the
hell I'm doing up on a stage because I'm basically uh uncomfortable doing it you know I don't know
why people _ why people are led to do this _ uh _ it's _ uh because it is a contradiction to your you know
if you're a private person [Eb] and a private artist _ it's _ _ _ a strange it's a strange _ I think somebody
like Ronnie Hawkins is _ _ suited perfectly for it you know he _ he's he's very comfortable up in front
of people _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ some of us _ _ aren't _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I'm feeling real stupid _ right now [N] as a matter of fact _
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I'm not sure I'm feeling stupid right now
Now I just want you to hang on one minute _ I want you to hang on one minute please I want you to
hear something and I want you to hear it fucking good I _ just want to tell you people something
there's some good people out here and you are insulting their intelligence
and _ _ _ _ _ if you come to this country at our invitation and we have to charge you through no choice of our
own three pounds right if you don't want to pay it don't fucking well come _ _ _ _ _ _