I'd Rather Go Blind:Etta James. 
#10 on R&B Charts and #23 on BB Hot
100 on CADET Records in 1968.



[Intro]
    


[Verse 1]
          
Something told

        
 me it was ove

           
r (yeah-eah-ea

  
h-eah) 
            
when I saw you

     
 and her talki

ng.
             
Something deep

         
 down in my so

ul said, cry g

irl, 
   
(cry, cry) whe

n I saw you an

d that girl wa

lking 

out.


[Verse 2]
             
Ooo-ooo, I wou

              
ld rather, I w

              
ould rather go

 
 blind, 
              
boy, than to s

            
ee you walk aw

       
ay from me, ch

ild.
           
(oh-oooo-oooo-

     
oooo-oooo)
             
So, you see, I

             
 love you so m

#          
uch, that I do

n't want 

to watch you leave me, babe.
            
Most of all, I

              
 just don't, I

           
 just don't wa

nt to be 

free, no.


[Verse 3]
         
Ooo-ooo-ooo-oo

              
o, I was just,

       
 I was just, I

 was just 
           
sittin' there 

            
thinking of yo

              
ur kiss and yo

   
ur warm 
  
embrace, yeah.
             
when the refle

             
ction in the g

#          
lass that I he

ld to my
              
lips now, babe

           
 (yeah-eah-eah

 
-eah) revealed

 the tears 
             
that was on my

 
 face, yeah.


[Outro]
           
Oooo, and baby

             
, baby, I'd ra

              
ther, I'd rath

      
er be blind, 
         
boy...........

              
......than to 

              
see you walk a

         
way from 

me, yeah.
          
Oooo-oooo, bab

              
y, baby, baby.

              
.I'd rather be

 
 blind..(Fade.

)



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