Help Me Make It Through The Night
written by Kris Kristofferson
Album: "Lend Me Your Hears"
3/23/06
CAPO III
INTRO (start off in a jazzy-bluesy waltz): A7
D D/B D
Take the ribbon from your hair
D7 G G/E G
Shake it lose and let it fall
A7
Lyin' soft against your skin
D
Like the shadows on the wall
N/C
(Hold it, hold it, I say hold it, son!
That ain't movin' me! Let's put a little fire in it!)
(three gunshots)
(shift into an upbeat bluegrass shuffle)
D A7/
D
Take the ribbon from your hair (ripping sound) (Yeeeoooowww!)
D7 G
Shake it lose and let it fall (thud, breaking glass)
A7
Lyin' soft against your skin (slap) (ooh ooh ooh ooh!)
D
Like the shadows on the wall
N/C D
Come and lay here by my side (tree falling) (Timber!)
D7 G G/E
'Til the early mornin' light (cock-a-doodle-doo!) (gunshot) (ohhh!)
A7
All I'm takin' is your time (ticking clock) (cookoo!)
D A7 D
Help me make it through the night (help me help me! ohhhhhhh!)
G
I don't know what's right or wrong (Order in the court!) (I'll have a cheeseburger!)
D
I don't try to understand (ibbity-ibbity-ibbity that's easy for you to say!)
E7
Let that devil take tomorrow (mad cackling)
A7
'Cause tonight I need a friend (drinking sounds, belch)
N/C D D7
Yesterday is dead and gone (Ashes to ashes)
G G/E
And tomorrow's out of sight (far out dude)
A7
And it's sad to be alone (oh I can't stand it! Ohhhh!)
D A7 D
Help me make it through the night (sirens)
A7
Yes it's sad to be alone (Yes I can't stand it I can't stand it ohhh!)
N/C
(gunshot, thud)
(shift back to jazzy waltz)
G A7 G D
Help me make it through the night
N/C
(drinking sounds, belch, whistle) (Hold it!) (Ohhh! Ohhh!)
(Gunshot, breaking glass, thud) (Well now I say, I say that's more like it!)
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