{title: You can leave your hat on} {artist: Joe Cocker} {time: 4/4} {tempo: 86} {key: C} {meta: author Frans-Willem Post, 2026-05-06} {start_of_part: Intro} [C7] ( bes c es-- c es-- c bes c....... fis g bes-- ) {end_of_part} {start_of_verse: Verse 1} [C7] baby take off your coat, real slow and take off your shoes, i'll take your shoes baby take off your dress, yes yes yes {end_of_verse} {start_of_chorus: Chorus 1} you can [C7]leave your hat on, [C7/E] you can [Fsus4]leave your hat on [Gm7sus4] you can leave your [C7]hat on {end_of_chorus} {start_of_verse: Verse 2} [C7] go on over there, turn on the light, no all the lights come over here, stand on that chair, that's right raise your arms up in the air, now shake 'em {end_of_verse} {start_of_chorus: Chorus 2} [C7] you give me reason to live, [C7/E] you give me reason to live [Fsus4] you give me a reason to live, [Gm7sus4] you give me a reason to live [C7] ...sweet [Bb]darling, [F] you can leave your [C7]hat on you can leave your hat on, [Bb] [F]feeling, you can leave your [C7]hat on you can leave your hat on, [Bb] [F]feeling, you can leave your [C7]hat on [Bb] [F] you can leave your [C7]hat on {end_of_chorus} {start_of_verse: Verse 3} [C7] suspicious minds are talkin', they're try'n' to tear us apart they don't believe in this love of mine they don't know what love is {end_of_verse} {start_of_part: Link} they don't [C7]know what love is, [(riff)] they don't [C7]know what love is [(riff)] they don't [C7]know what love is, [(riff)] [Gm7sus4]I know what love is {end_of_part} {start_of_part: Outtro} [Bb] [F] you can leave your [C7]hat on [Bb] [F] you can leave your [C7]hat on [Bb] [F] you can leave your [C7]hat on [Bb] [F] you can leave your [NC]hat on {end_of_part}