What Good Can Drinkin Do Chords

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What Good Can Drinkin Do by Janis Joplin is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of B. It uses the chords B, F# and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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B
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  			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. 

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. 


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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