Ray Stevens - Help Me Make It Through The Night guitar chord

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!)