Do What You Gotta' Do Chords

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Do What You Gotta' Do by Johnny Rivers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, C, Am, Bb, Dm and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
F
Text
16
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Intro: F     C     Am    F    Am    C     F 

F                                   C 
Girl, I can understand how it might be 
                     Bb             Am 
Kinda hard to love a guy like me 
                           Bb 
I don't blame you much for wanting to be free 
                      F 
I just wanted you to know 
                     C                     Bb 
I've loved you better than your own kin did 
                   Am 
From the very start so it's my own fault 
       Bb 
What happens to my heart 
                                F 
You see I've always known you'd go 
               Am              Bb 
So, you just do what you gotta do 
               F 
My wild sweet love 
              Dm              Am 
Though it may mean that I'll never kiss 
      C      Bb     F 
Those sweet lips again 
             Dm     
Pay that no mind 
  C                Bb 
Find that dappled dream of yours 
     Am               C              F       Bb 
And come on back and see me when you can 
      F              
Now I know it'll make you sad 
C 
make you feel so bad 
Bb                               Am 
They say you don't treat me like you should 
                           Bb 
They got ways to make you feel no good 

                          F 
I guess they got no way to know 
                       C 
I've had my eyes wide open from the start 
     Bb 
And girl you never lied to me 
   Am                          Bb 
The part of you they'll never see 
                            F 
Is the part you've shown to me 
             Am                Bb 
Now you just do what you gotta do 
               F 
My wild sweet love 
              Dm              Am                      
Though it may mean that I'll never kiss 
      C     Bb     F 
Those sweet lips again 
            Dm 
Pay that no mind 
  C                 Bb 
Chase that dappled dream of yours 
     Am               C               F       Bb 
and come on back and see me when you can 
              Am                Bb 
Yeah you just do what you gotta do 
   C            D 
My wild sweet love 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante