[Key: E]
[Intro]
(Guitar only)
E A (x2)
(Guitar, Bass, Drums, Organ)
E A (x2)
[Chorus]
E A B A
Well, I gotta get the world off my back
E A B A
Or pretty soon I'm gonna crack
E A B A
So I gotta get the world off my back
E A
Somehow
E A
Babe
[Verse]
E A
I'm sitting here thinking about the poems
E A
I used to write when I was just a little boy
E A
About that when I grew up
E A
Everything will be just fine
E A
Fancy clothes, cigars, drive the best cars
E A
But now I've grown up
[Chorus]
E A B A
And I gotta get the world off my back
E A B A
My mind is beginning to go black
E A B A
So I gotta get the world off my back
E A
Somehow
E A
Babe
[Verse]
E A
I grew up and looked around me
E A
And I saw that the world was in a mess
E A
Thousands of hungry people
E A
Children starving, wars, injustice
E A
And everybody kept picking on me
[Chorus]
E A B A
So I gotta get the world off my back
E A B A
Or pretty soon I'm gonna crack
E A B A
So I gotta get the world off my back
E A
Somehow
E A
Babe
[Organ Solo]
E A (x6)
[Chorus]
E A B A
So I gotta get the world off my back
E A B A
My mind is beginning to go black
E A B A
So I gotta get the world off my back
E A
Somehow
E A
Babe
[Outro]
E A