The Price Chords by Solomon Burke

[Gm] _ [F] _ _ _ After I hung up my heart for you, [Bb] darling, and I said if you ever need me, all you had to do was [F] call.
I stood up and I told the whole wide world that you were [Bb] good for me, baby.
Yes, then you laughed and you called me [F] your personal clown in front of all your friends. _
[C] You walked away and you left me standing up like a fool.
[Dm] I couldn't even go to my friends or my relations.
All I could do was stand [F] up and hang my head in shame.
You see what you [C] cost me?
You cost me [F] my love, the love of [Bb] my father, _ _ _
[F] sister, _ _ _
and all my [Bb] brothers too.
Oh, yes, you do.
See now [F] what you've done.
_ And I know [C] just what it costs.
And I know what the [Dm] price I paid.
I paid.
What [F] does someone like you [C] pay? _
_ [F] _ _ All I can hear my friends say is,
I [Bb] told you.
I _ [F] told you.
And I can hear my mother say,
[Bb] I told you.
See [F] what you've done.
Yes, you do.
You look back and you wonder [C] somewhere. _ _ _
And I see the [Dm] price I paid.
I paid for loving someone,
[F] someone, someone, [C] someone like [F] you.
And I don't care what the world [Bb] might say.
_ I'm gonna love you.
_ [F] And although you let me down, baby,
my, my, my,
[Bb] deep down in my heart I feel that nobody else but you.
[F] And I don't care what my mother, my father might say.
[C] And I don't care what the world calls me, darling.
_ [Dm] _ Sometimes, sometimes I sit in my room,
let me in my [F] home and think about myself.
[C] Why don't you come back home and hold me, [F] baby? Baby.
Baby.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ Baby.
_ [F] Baby. _ _ _