Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles

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Written by Percy Mayfield (1960), recorded by Ray Charles and Margie Hendrix in 1961.
Tuning half step down, barre chords, tempo 173 bpm

[Intro]
            
            

[Chorus]
           
Hit the road J

             
ack and don't 

            
you come back 

           
no more, no mo

            
re, no more, n


o more.
           
Hit the road J

             
ack and don't 

            
you come back 

       
no more. (What

 you say?)
           
Hit the road J

             
ack and don't 

            
you come back 

           
no more, no mo

            
re, no more, n


o more.
           
Hit the road J

             
ack and don't 

            
you come back 

       
no more.

[Verse]
           
Oh woman, oh w

             
oman, don't tr

          
eat me so mean

,
            
You're the mea

             
nest old woman

             
 that I've eve

   
r seen.
           
I guess if you

       
 say so
            
I'll have to p

             
ack my things 

             
and go. (That'

  
s right)

[Chorus]
           
Hit the road J

             
ack and don't 

            
you come back 

           
no more, no mo

            
re, no more, n


o more.
           
Hit the road J

             
ack and don't 

            
you come back 

       
no more. (What

 you say?)
           
Hit the road J

             
ack and don't 

            
you come back 

           
no more, no mo

            
re, no more, n


o more.
           
Hit the road J

             
ack and don't 

            
you come back 

       
no more.

[Verse]
            
Now baby, list

             
en baby, don't

             
-a treat me th

     
is-a way
           
For I'll be ba

             
ck on my feet 

       
some day.     

 
            
(Don't care if

             
 you do 'cause

            
 it's understo


od
            
you ain't got 

             
no money you j

             
ust ain't no g


ood.)
            
Well, I guess 

              
if you say so
            
I'd have to pa

             
ck my things a

             
nd go. (That's

 
 right)

[Chorus]
           
Hit the road J

             
ack and don't 

            
you come back 

           
no more, no mo

            
re, no more, n


o more.
           
Hit the road J

             
ack and don't 

            
you come back 

       
no more. (What

 you say?)
           
Hit the road J

             
ack and don't 

            
you come back 

           
no more, no mo

            
re, no more, n


o more.
           
Hit the road J

             
ack and don't 

            
you come back 

       
no more.   (We

ll !)

[Outro]
              
              

              
              

            
   Don't you c


ome back no mo

re.
            
(aah! what you

             
 say)         

            
   Don't you c


ome back no mo

re.
            
(I didn't unde

             
rstand you)   

            
   Don't you c


ome back no mo

re.
            
(You can't mea

             
n that)       

            
   Don't you c


ome back no mo

re.
            
(Oh, now baby,

             
 please)      

            
   Don't you c


ome back no mo

re.
            
(What you tryi

             
n' to do to me

            
?) Don't you c


ome back no mo

re.
            
(Oh, don't tre

             
at me like tha

            
t) Don't you c


ome back no mo

re.