Biography:
Bill Withers (born July 4, 1938 in Slab Fork, West Virginia, died March 30, 2020 in Los Angeles, California) was an American singer-songwriter who performed and recorded from the late 1960s until the mid 1980s.
Bill's father died when he was thirteen. He joined the US Navy at seventeen, and stayed there for nine years, before he moved to Los Angeles in 1967. While in Los Angeles, he worked full-time in a Lockheed assembly plant in the day, recording demo tapes and performing in juke joints during the night.
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Other songs:
- Ain't No Sunchine
- Ain't No Sunshine
- Ain't No Sunshine (when She's Gone)
- Aint No Sunshine
- Just The Two Of Us
- Lean On Me
- Lovely Day
- Use Me
- Ain’t No Sunshine
- Grandmas Hands
- Harlem
- I Cant Write Left
- In My Heart
- Kissin My Love
- Let It Be
- Let Me In Your Life
- Make A Smile For Me
- Overload
- Ruby Lee
- Run For Cover
- Sweet Wanomi
- Tender Things
- World Keeps Going Around
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[Verse 1]
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I can't write left handed
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Would you please write a letter, write a letter to my mother
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Tell her to tell, tell her to tell, tell her to tell the family lawyer
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Try to get, try to get a deferment for my younger brother
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[Pre-Chorus]
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Tell the Reverend Harris to pray for me, lord,
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I ain't gonna live, I don't believe I'm going to live to get much older
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[Chorus]
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Strange little man over here in Vietnam, I ain't never seen
Ab N.C.
Bless his heart I ain't never done nothin' to, he done shot me in my shoulder
[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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Boot camp we had classes
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You know we talked about fightin', fightin' everyday
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And lookin' through rosy, rosy colored glasses
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I must admit it seemed exciting anyway
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But something that day overlooked to tell me
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Bullet look better I must say
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Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Rather when they comin' at you.
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Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
But go without the other way
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[Pre-Chorus]
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And please call up the Reverend, call up, call up the Reverend Harris
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Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
And tell him to ask the lord to do some good things for me
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Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Tell him, I ain't gonna live, I ain't gonna live, I ain't gonna live to get much older
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
[Chorus]
Gm F Gm
Strange little man over here in Vietnam, I ain't never seen
Ab N.C.
Bless his heart I ain't never done nothin' to, he done shot me in my shoulder
[Outro]
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
[Verse 1]
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
I can't write left handed
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Would you please write a letter, write a letter to my mother
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Tell her to tell, tell her to tell, tell her to tell the family lawyer
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Try to get, try to get a deferment for my younger brother
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
[Pre-Chorus]
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Tell the Reverend Harris to pray for me, lord,
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
I ain't gonna live, I don't believe I'm going to live to get much older
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
[Chorus]
Gm F Gm
Strange little man over here in Vietnam, I ain't never seen
Ab N.C.
Bless his heart I ain't never done nothin' to, he done shot me in my shoulder
[Interlude]
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
[Verse 2]
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Boot camp we had classes
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
You know we talked about fightin', fightin' everyday
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
And lookin' through rosy, rosy colored glasses
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
I must admit it seemed exciting anyway
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
But something that day overlooked to tell me
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bullet look better I must say
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Rather when they comin' at you.
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
But go without the other way
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
[Pre-Chorus]
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
And please call up the Reverend, call up, call up the Reverend Harris
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
And tell him to ask the lord to do some good things for me
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Tell him, I ain't gonna live, I ain't gonna live, I ain't gonna live to get much older
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
[Chorus]
Gm F Gm
Strange little man over here in Vietnam, I ain't never seen
Ab N.C.
Bless his heart I ain't never done nothin' to, he done shot me in my shoulder
[Outro]
Bb Ab Db Ab/C Bb
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