{title: Beast of burden}
{artist: Bette Midler}
{time: 4/4}
{tempo: 104}
{key: C}
{meta: author Frans-Willem Post, 2026-05-06}
{start_of_part: Intro}
[C] [G] [Am] [F]
[C] [G] [Am] [F]
[C] [G] [Am] [F]
[C] [G] [Am] [F]
now write this down!
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{start_of_verse: Verse 1}
[C] I'll never [G]be your [Am]beast of [F]burden
[C] my back is [G]broad but [Am]it's a [F]hurting
[C]all I [G]want is for [Am]you to make [F]love to
[C]me [G] [Am] [F]
{end_of_verse}
{start_of_verse: Verse 2}
[C] I'll never [G]be your [Am]beast of [F]burden
[C] I've walked for [G]miles my [Am]feet are [F]hurting
[C]all I [G]want is [Am]you to make [F]love to
[C]me [G] [Am] [F]
{end_of_verse}
{start_of_chorus: Chorus 1}
ain't I [F]hard enough, ain't I [C/E]rough enough
ain't I [F]rich enough, [C/E]I'm not too [F]blind to [G]see [G]
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{start_of_verse: Verse 3}
[C] I'll never [G]be your [Am]beast of [F]burden
[C] so let's go [G]home [Am] and draw the [F]curtains
put some [C]music on the [G]radio, [Am]come on baby [F]make sweet love to
[C]me [G] [Am] [F]
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{chorus: Chorus 2}
{start_of_verse: Verse 4}
[C] my little [G]sister is a [Am]pretty, pretty, [F]girl
[C] my little [G]sister is a [Am]pretty, pretty, [F]girl
[C] she love to [G]ride, and she [Am]loves to [F]crawl
[C] they love to [G]take her out, [Am] behind the garden [F]wall
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{start_of_verse: Verse 5}
[C] and when they’re [G]done, they just [Am] throw her a-[F]way
[C] and she don't [G]have an awful [Am] lot to [F]say
[C] it hurts her [G]so bad to [Am] come to the [F]end
[C] I remember all the [G]times she spent [Am] sayin', [F]"please!"
{end_of_verse}
{chorus: Chorus 3}
{start_of_part: Solo}
[C] [G] [Am] [F]
[C] [G] [Am] [F]
[C] [G] [Am] [F]
[C] [G] [Am] [F]
{end_of_part}
{start_of_verse: Verse 1}
[C] I'll never [G]be your [Am]beast of [F]burden
[C] my back is [G]broad but [Am]it's a [F]hurting
[C]all I [G]want is for [Am]you to make [F]love to
[C]me [G] [Am] [F]
{end_of_verse}
{start_of_part: Outtro, repeat}
[C] [G] [Am] [F]
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