Chords for Lou Rawls - A Natural Man - 8/18/1991 - Newport Jazz Festival (Official)

_ _ Hey. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
How you doing?
_ _ _ [Db] _ [Eb]
Alright.
_ [B] _ [Eb] It's [Bb] a pleasure and a joy [C] to
be here with you this afternoon.
We hope you'll enjoy our
[Eb] breakfast show.
[Bb] _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ [Bb] Yeah buddy.
We
[Eb] got some song and music [Db] for you.
We hope you'll [Eb] enjoy.
Try to put
a little dip in your hips, you
know.
A little pepper in your
step if you wanna be feisty.
_ _ _ If you just wanna be [Bb] cool and
lay [Eb] back, we got some glide for
your [Bb] stride.
[Eb] You know what I'm
talking about?
Yeah buddy.
[Ab]
Old
songs and new ones.
[C] Somewhere
along the way perhaps we'll
strike your musical fancy but
we're gonna move right along.
[Bb] _ You know right now we're going
through what they call the rap
craze.
_ [Eb] Well, _ [Bb] I might date
myself by saying this [Bbm] with
myself [Eb] and Barry White and Isaac
Hayes was kind of the
forerunners of this particular
thing, you know.
[Bb] _ [Eb] _
We weren't
[Bbm] talking [Eb] rap crap.
We was
talking about music, you know. _
This is one of the songs.
You
know there was a [Bbm] time if
somebody [Eb] told you to do
something, [Db] boy, you [Ebm] did it.
Bam!
Right on and there were no
questions asked.
[Bb] It was just
yes sir and yes ma'am.
[D] You
never [Eb] said no.
[D] Oh but [Eb] things
are changing folks.
Yes see
cause it's a new day now.
And
folks wanna take their lives
into their [A] own hands [Eb] and make
their own choices.
No longer
do they wanna go along with the
program cause everybody else
says right.
Nowadays different
strokes for different folks.
Or you do your thing and I'll
do mine.
I won't get in your
way and if you [Ebm] smart, got any
sense at all, you won't get in
mine.
You dig?
_ [Cm] This is a song
here.
[Eb] Hey, I don't go watch for
a movie.
I work at 50 years
from 9 to 5.
_ [C] While my boss is
guzzling champagne.
I'm
out there feeling some dime.
I
wanna [F] be happy and free.
_ Living
and loving for me.
I wanna be
happy and free. _ _
[Bbm] _ _ Living for me
like [C] a natural man.
_ _ Like a
natural man.
I _ _ [F] _ _
[Eb] _ _ refuse to listen
to what they say that I'm too
high.
_ _ [C]
I want to taste it now
before I walk on the white
streets on by.
I want [F] to be
_ happy and free.
_ _ Living and
loving for me.
I wanna be
happy and free.
Living and
loving for me like [C] a natural
[C] man. _
_ _ A natural [F] man. _
_ _ _ _ [D] I have
tried to do what [Eb] others said
that I should do.
_ They said [C] I
should be cool and make it
[F] well.
Those kind of views, they
make me crazy and blue.
_ I just
can't take [Eb] it.
When you see me
walking, I want you to notice
_ brown skin and _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ my soul is
searching for the sky.
I [F] want
to be happy and free. _ _
Living
and loving for me.
I wanna be
happy and free.
_ Living and
[C] _ _ [Em] loving for me like a natural
man.
_ _ [C] A [Eb] natural man. _
_ Like a
[C] natural man. _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
My soul is
[F] searching for [Gm] the sky [C] like [Eb] _ _ _ _ [F] a
_ natural _ [Bb] man. _ _