Chords for Maggie Rose - "I Can't Write Left-Handed" (A Tribute To Bill Withers - Live at Carnegie Hall)

_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ [Db] _ [Ab] _ [Bb] _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ [Db] _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ [Db] [Cm] the story of a guy in Vietnam
Bill Withers performed [Bb] this
song in _ [Ab] 1973 _ [Eb] [Db] at Carnegie Hall.
[Bb]
The story is [Ab] told _ [Eb] [Db] that he [Ab] wrote
this song [Bb]
based [Ab] on the story of
a guy [Eb] in Vietnam [Db] War.
_ [Bb]
Mmm, yeah.
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] [Db] While [Ab] America's at war, [Bb] even
still today, I've got a story
of my own.
[Ab] Oh, [Eb] oh, [Db] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
[Bb] _
As my [Eb] brother _ [Db] served two [Ab] tours
[Bb]
in war _ in the Army.
[Eb] [Db] He's a combat veteran, [Bb] means
he's on the front lines.
_ [Ab] _ [Eb] There was one [Db] story that he
[Ab] told me [Bb]
about [Ab] him driving one
of the vehicles [Eb] [Db] and him
riding [Bb] over a landmine.
_ The landmine [Eb] goes off and the
[Db] truck flips over.
[Ab] _ [Bb] _
_ But nothing quite gets me [Eb] [Db] like
[Bb] his story about when he was shot.
_ _ _ [Eb] [Db] Much [Ab] like Bill Withers' [Bb] story
when he talks about the young
man at Vietnam War, that young
man said, it's not [Eb] being [Db] shot
at that shakes him, it's
[Bb] actually being shot.
Well, yeah, my brother was shot.
_ _ [Eb] [Db] And it's kind of miraculous
[Ab] because the bullet [Bb] went in his
leg and it could have traveled
anywhere in his body, but it
lodged right in his [Eb] leg where
it [Db] still is today, [Bb] years after
his tour in the war.
And he walks around [Eb] day after
[Db] day with this [Ab] bullet lodged [Bb] in
his leg and every once in a
while he feels that pain in his
leg [Eb] that [Db] reminds him [Bb]
of that
time in war when he was shot
in [Eb] his [Db] [Cm] leg.
[Bb] _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] [Db] I imagine if he [Bb]
wrote a story
to get into the mind of this
Vietnam [Eb] veteran that Bill
Withers [Db] spoke about, [Ab] my brother
[Bb] would say something like this.
I can't write [Eb] left [Db]-handed
_ [Bb] _
_ Would you please write [Eb] a [Db] letter
[Cm] [Bb] to my _ mother
_ [Eb] _ [Db] _ _ [Bb] _
_ Oh, yeah
[Eb] _ [Db] [Ab] Mm [Bb]-mm
_ Tell her, tell
[Eb] Tell her, tell [Db] _ [Ab] the [Bb] family lawyer
_ [F] _ _ [Eb] _ [Db] Ooh
[Bb] _ _ [Ab] Tryna get a [Eb] deferment
for my [Bb] younger brother
_ [Eb] _ _ [Db] _ _
[Bb] _ _ Tell the [Ab] Reverend [Eb] Harris
to [Bb] pray for me
_ [Ab] Mm, [Eb] yeah
[Db] _ _
[Bb] I ain't gonna [Ab] [Eb] live
I ain't gonna live
[Bb] to get much [Eb] older
_ _ [Db] _ _
[Bb] _ Mm
_ [Gm] _ Strange little man
over [F] here in Vietnam
I ain't, I ain't [Gm] never [G] seen
Bless his heart, I ain't [Ab] never
done nothing to
He [F] done shot me
[Bb] in my shoulder Mm, _ _ [Cm] _ [Bb] yeah _
[F] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ [Bb] _ _ _
Oh, yeah
Mm
[Ab] _ [Bbm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Cm] _ [Bb] _ _
[F] Boot camp, we had classes
[Ab] _ [Bb] _ Yes, we talked about fighting
[Ab] [Bb] Fighting every day
_ [Ab] _ Yeah
[Db] _ [Ab] _ [Bb] _ _
[Ab] And looking through [Db] rosy
[Ab] rosy [Bb]-colored glasses
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Db] [Ab] Hey, [Bb] yeah, yeah
I must admit
[Db] It seemed [Ab] [Bb] exciting anyway
_ _ _ _ [Db] [Ab] Mm
[Bb] _
But something, [Db] something
[Ab] they [Bb] overlooked to tell me
_ _ [Db] _ [Ab] [Bb] Mm _
The [Ab] bullets look [Db] better
[Ab] I [Bb] must say
[Eb] Mm
_ _ [Db] _ [Ab] _ [Bb] _
_ [Ab] Brother, _ [Eb] [Db] brother
[Bb] When they ain't coming [Eb] at [Db] ya
[Ab] Going out [Bb] the other way
[F] _ _ [Db] Oh
_ [Bb] _
_ Yeah
[Eb] Yeah, yeah, [Db] yeah, yeah, yeah
[Ab] Yeah, yeah, yeah, [Bb] yeah
_ So please
[Eb] _ [Db] _ [Bb] Please tell Reverend [F] Harris
_ [Db] Tell him to [Ab] ask the good [Bb] Lord
to do something good for [F] me
_ [Eb] _ [Db] _ [Bb] Please, please
I ain't gonna live
[Eb] I ain't gonna live
[Db] I ain't gonna live
to [Bb] get much older
[Eb] No, no, no, no, no, no, [Bb] no No, no
_ _ [G] Oh, strange man
over [F] here in Vietnam
I ain't, I [Gm] ain't never seen
Bless his heart
I ain't never done nothing [F] to
He [Gb] done shot [F] me
[Bb] in my shoulder
Oh, oh, [Db] oh, [Ab] oh, oh, [Bb] oh, oh
God damn it
Shot me in my shoulder
He [Db] _ [Ab] _ [Bb] shot me in my [F] shoulder
_ [Eb] [Db] Shot me [Bb] in my shoulder
_ [Ab] Shot [Eb] me in [Db] my, [Ab] [Bb] my
[Eb] shoulder _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Db] [Eb] Shot me in [C] my shoulder
_ _ [Eb] [Dbm] That little [Ebm] old man
over in Vietnam
Shot me, shot me
[Eb] Shot me, shot [Cm] me
I hear my brother [Ab] say
He done shot [Eb] me, shot me
[Cm]
Shot [Eb] me, he done shot me
Oh, [Bb] oh, I've
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And I can't ride Left-handed _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _