That ainât no way to get along
Eric Clapton
Standard E tuning Moderately fast tempo
Intro:
Well Iâm goinâ home (well Iâm going home)
Friends sit down (friends sit down)
And tell Ma (and tell ma)
My Mamma (my Mamma)
Friends sit down tell my Ma
Iâm going home sit down and tell my Ma
Iâm going home sit down and tell my Ma
And thatâs no way for me to get along
Cosâ these low down (these low down)
Women Mama (women Mamma)
They treated your (treated your)
Your poor son wrong (poor son wrong)
A Mamma treated me wrong
The low down women, Mamma, treated your boy so wrong
The low down women, Mamma, done treated your poor son wrong
And thatâs no way for him to get along
They treated me (they treated me)
Like my poor heart (like my poor heart)
Was made of (was made of)
Of rock of stone (of rock of stone)
Iâm a made of rock of stone
My old heart was made of rock of stone
My old heart was made of rock of stone
And thatâs no way for me to get along
(Guitar lead over verse 1 chords)
Iâm stood on (well Iâm stood on)
The road side (the road side)
And I cried alone (I cried alone)
All by myself (all by my self)
Cried alone all by my self
Stood on the road side cried all by my self
I stood on the road side cried all by my self
And thatâs no way for me to get along
I just want some (I just want some)
Train to come along (come along)
And take me
And friends away from here
Friends take me away from here
Train come along and take me away from here
Train come along and take me away from here
And thatâs no way for me to get along
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(The song then goes off into an instrumental jam session, really cool but ...
drawn out. I use the following as an optional ending that works for a listening
audience)
And thatâs no way for me to get along
(End on single strum)
And thatâs no way for me to get along