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Version 1
...YOU DON'T MISS YOUR WATER... Otis Redding
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*from 'Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul' (1965)*
Intro:
G, D7
Verse 1:
G
In the be-ginning, you really loved me,
C G
I was too blind; I could not see.
B
But now that you left me, oh,
Em Dm C
How I cried, I keep crying.
G C G
You don't miss your water, 'till your well runs dry.
Verse 2:
G
I kept you crying, sad and blue, oh my, oh.
C G
I was a playboy; I could not be true.
B
But now that you left me,
Em Dm C
How I cried; I keep crying, I keep crying.
G
Ooh, you don't miss your water,
C G
No, I never miss my water, 'till my well runs dry.
Verse 3:
G
I sit here and wonder; how in the world this could be?
C
My, oh my, I never thought,
G
Oh, I never thought you'd ever leave me.
B
But now that you left me,
Em Dm C
Good Lord, good Lord, how I cried out;
G
You don't miss your water,
C G
You don't miss your water, 'till your well runs dry.
C G
Ooh, you don't miss your water, 'till your well runs dry.
Coda:
G C G
I miss my water,
G C G
I keep missing my water,
G C G
I keep missing my water.
G C G
And I want my water,
G C G
I need my water,
G C G
I love my water,
G C G
And I want my water.
G C G
And I'm little thirsty now,
G C G
And I'm little thirsty now.
(Fade)
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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G D7 B C Dm Em
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006 ()