What Good Can Drinkin' Do?
by: Janis Joplin
Transposed by: FJ DeMarco
Uh, this is a song called What Good Can Drinkin' Do, that I wrote one night after
drinking myself into a stuper. - Janis Joplin
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.
BE 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?
BF# B
Well, I drink all night, But the next day I still feel blue.
