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Sugar Mama

Bonnie Raitt

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From marten@sky.net Sun May  4 10:19:54 1997
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 09:57:58 -0800
From: Otto Marten 
Reply-To: mail.sky.net@sky.net
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: CRD: Bonnie Raitt

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Sugar Mama (Daddy)
Delbert McClinton / Home Plate 1975

As recorded by Bonnie Raitt on the album Home Plate 1975

5
Sittin' here worryin'
/                             1
While yer lookin' to find yourself
         /
Somebody else
5                 /
Me lovin' you and wantin' you baby
1                                     /
And you not knowin' what you want yourself
4         /
Why do you treat me so mean
/         /
  Hurt so bad
1                       /
All you wanna do is just sit around and jive
/                        /
You don't even know this woman^?s alive
5
Sittin' here worryin'
/                               1
Knowin' yer lookin' to find yourself

5                 /             1    /
Ain't gonna be no sugar mama no more
5                  /                 1      /
You can't have love when yer keepin' score
4                  /
All you pretty boys used to catch my eye
1                      /
I just want a man I can satisfy
5                /              1      /
Ain't gonna be no sugar mama no more

Sittin' here...
              ....yourself
All you pretty boys...
                    ...no more
Ain't...

(in A; 2=half note, 4=qrt note, 8=eighth note)
intro    88 82 | 88 8 82
         gf#e-   rg f#e-
88 88  |       | 88 8 8 4. | 4 4    4 8   8 | 4888888
rc#dd#  e        rc#d d#e    a /c# /d /d# e


[Number system for any key: in C, 1=C, 2=D-, 3=E-, etc.]
[Bass notes are key scale numbers: in C, 1=C, 2=D, 3=E, etc.]
[Number in parens = vocal notes from key scale: in C, 1=C, 2=D, 3=E,
etc.]

| = bar line; / = play same as previous chord
No bar line = chord gets entire measure's time
Within bar lines chords divide measure accordingly
/^/ = split the beat (ex.:  /^G7 )

transcribed by OtMan Otto Marten marten@sky.net