The Rolling Stones

Can I Get a Witness

The Rolling Stones


Tom: D

Intro: D

[Verse 1]
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Ah ah listen everybody (body)
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Especially you girls (girls)
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It's not right to be left alone
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When the one you love is never home
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 I loved too hard, 
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my friends sometime say
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But I believe, I believe
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That a woman should be loved that way
       A
But it hurts me so inside
           G
To see you treat me so unkind
    D
Somebody, somewhere tell her it ain't fair, 

[Verse 2]       
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can I get a witness (can I get a witness)
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I want a witness (can I get a witness)
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I want a witness (can I get a witness)
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Somebody (can I get a witness)
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Is it right to be treated so bad
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When you give it everything you had
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If I talks in my sleep
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'Cause I haven't seen my baby all week
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Now you chicks do all agree
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  This ain't the way it's supposed to be
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Let me hear you,let me hear you say
N.C.
"yeah yeah", 


[Verse 3]
N.C.            D
up early in the morning
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Well they're on a'my mind
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Just to find her out all night
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Well I've been crying
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But I believe
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A women's a man's best friend
          D
I'm gonna stick by her
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'Till the very end
         A
Well she caused me so much misery
G
 I forget how it's supposed to be
    D
Somebody, somewhere
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Tell her it ain't fair
D           N.C.
Can I get a witness.


N.C.        D
Can I get a witness (can I get a witness)
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I want a witness (can I get a witness)
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Witness, witness (can I get a witness)
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Witness, witness (can I get a witness)
     G
Everybody knows, especially you girls
       D
That a love can be sad
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But half a love is twice as bad
        A
Now you chicks do all agree
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 That ain't the way love's supposed to be
       D
Let me hear ya, let me hear you say, "yeah yeah" 


[Verse 4] 

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I want a  witness (can I get a witness)
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I want a witness (can I get a witness)
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Yeah I want a witness (I want a witness)
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Somebody (can I get a witness)
      G
Is it right to be treated so bad
G
When you give it everything you had
     D
If I talk, in my sleep
D
'Cuz I haven't seen my baby all week
         A
Yeah she caused me so much misery
G
 That ain't the way it's supposed to be
       D
Let me hear ya
D
Let me hear you say "yeah yeah"

[Outro] 

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I want a witness (can I get a witness)
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I want a witness (can I get a witness)
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I wanna be (can I get a witness)
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I want a witness (can I get a witness)
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Witness, witness (FADE)