Biography:
Etta James (1938-2012) was a U.S. blues, soul, R&B, rock & roll, and jazz singer and songwriter. She is the winner of four Grammies, seventeen Blues Music Awards, and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (in 1993), the Blues Hall of Fame (in 2001), and the Grammy Hall of Fame (in both 1999 and 2008).
James was born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles, California, on 25th January 1938, to an unmarried fourteen-year-old mother, Dorothy Hawkins.
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Other songs:
- All I Could Do Was Cry
- At Last
- I'd Rather Go Blind
- Something's Got A Hold On Me
- Sunday Kind Of Love
- Crazy Feeling
- Damn Your Eyes
- Fool That I Am
- I Just Wanna Make Love To You
- I Worship The Ground You Walk On
- Id Rather Go Blind
- If I Cant Have You
- In The Basement
- Lie No Better
- Loves Been Rough On Me
- Loving You More Every Day
- Purple Rain
- Santa Baby
- Somethings Got A Hold On Me
- Two Sides To Every Story
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[Intro]
A
[Verse]
A
Here you come draggin' in
A
Three a.m. again
A
Grinnin' that silly grin
A
Smellin' just like sin
D
Holdin' up that alibi that's tissue paper thin
E
Diggin' down deeper and deeper
E
In that hole you're already in
[Chorus]
A D
If you can't lie no better
A D
If you can't lie no better
A E
If you can't lie no better than that
E A
You might as well tell the truth
[Verse]
A
I know you been foolin' around
A
With some fool from way 'cross town
A
You're tearin' our good thing down
A
Makin' me out your clown
D
Lookin' for excuses that you know can't be found
[Chorus]
A D
If you can't lie no better
A D
If you can't lie no better
A
If you can't lie no better than that
E A
You might as well tell the truth
[Bridge]
D
And you could be more discreet
D
With your love letters
E
And honey, I smell some other man
E
All over your Cashmere sweater
[Solo]
F#m D F#m D E
[Chorus]
A D
If you can't lie no better
A D
If you can't lie no better
A
If you can't lie no better than that
E A
You might as well tell the truth
A
[Verse]
A
Here you come draggin' in
A
Three a.m. again
A
Grinnin' that silly grin
A
Smellin' just like sin
D
Holdin' up that alibi that's tissue paper thin
E
Diggin' down deeper and deeper
E
In that hole you're already in
[Chorus]
A D
If you can't lie no better
A D
If you can't lie no better
A E
If you can't lie no better than that
E A
You might as well tell the truth
[Verse]
A
I know you been foolin' around
A
With some fool from way 'cross town
A
You're tearin' our good thing down
A
Makin' me out your clown
D
Lookin' for excuses that you know can't be found
[Chorus]
A D
If you can't lie no better
A D
If you can't lie no better
A
If you can't lie no better than that
E A
You might as well tell the truth
[Bridge]
D
And you could be more discreet
D
With your love letters
E
And honey, I smell some other man
E
All over your Cashmere sweater
[Solo]
F#m D F#m D E
[Chorus]
A D
If you can't lie no better
A D
If you can't lie no better
A
If you can't lie no better than that
E A
You might as well tell the truth
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