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What Good Can Drinkin Do

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[Verse 1]
B
What good can drinkin' do? What good can drinkin' do?
B                    F#                                   B
Uh when I drink all night, but the next day I still feel blue. 
B
There's a glass on the table, they say it's gonna ease all my pain.
B                E                                                   B
Well, there's a glass on the table, they say it's gonna ease all my pain.                         
           F#                                               B
Oh when I drink it down, but the next day I still feel the same.
[Chorus 1]
B
Give me whiskey, uh give me bourbon, give me gin.
             E                                 B
Oh, give me whiskey, give me bourbon, give me gin.
         F#                                                           B
It don't matter what I'm drinkin' as long as it drowns the sorrow I'm in.
B
Now, my man he left me, child an he left me here.
       E                                B
Um, my man he left me, child he left me here.
         F#                                            B
When I'm feelin' low down, just gimme another drink of beer.
[Verse 2]
B
When I start drinkin' Friday, start drinkin' Friday night.
      E                                            B
Oh, I start drinkin' Friday, start drinking Friday night.
            F#                                              B
But, then I wake up on Sunday, child, ain't nothin' that's right.
B
What good can drinkin' do? What good can drinkin' do?
B       F#                                            B
Well, I drink all night, But the next day I still feel blue.

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Free chords for What Good Can Drinkin Do by Janis Joplin. Scroll the interactive sheet above or read the chord names inline below.

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What Good Can Drinkin Do Chords by Janis Joplin

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