Takin' It To The Streets: Doobie Brothers

                                Take this message to my brother

                                                    You will find him everywhere
                                                   Wherever people live together
                                                         Tied in poverty's despair

Takin' It To The Streets was written in 1976. The words and music are by Michael McDonald, one of my favorite musicians. I love this moderately fast song. Here are the chords that I have highlighted in red. You'll find some simple chord charts on line but I think this one is pretty easy to learn. I'm a Doobie fan... are you?

Fm6/G      F/G C/G             D7/G  G7sus4
You don't know me but I'm your brother

Fm6    F/G   C/G          D7/G   G7sus4
I was raised here in this living hell

Fm6       F/G  C/G         D7/G G7sus4
You don't know my kind in your world

Fm6/G  F/G  C/G          D7/G   G7sus4
Fairly soon the time will tell
C    C/Bb F         F/A   Fm/Ab      G7sus4      C  C/Bb
You,    telling me the things you're gonna do for me
F/A                   Fm/Ab          G7sus4
I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see 

C7/E     F6    D7-5/F#    C/G F/G
Takin' it to the streets

C7/E     F6    D7-5/F#    C/G F/G
Takin' it to the streets

C7/E    F6   D7-5/F#     C/G  F/G
Takin' it to the streets

C7/E    F6   D7-5/F#     C/G  F/G
Takin' it to the streets

Verse 2

 
Fm6/G     F/G    C/G     D7/G  G7sus4
Take this message to my brother

Fm6/G     F/G    C/G     D7/G  G7sus4
You will find him everywhere

Fm6/G     F/G    C/G     D7/G  G7sus4
Wherever people live together

Fm6/G     F/G    C/G     D7/G  G7sus4
Tied in poverty's despair
C    C/Bb7 F/A         Fm/Ab         G7sus4       C  C/Bb
You,    telling me the things you're gonna do for me
F/A               Fm/Ab             G7sus4
I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see 

C7/E    F6    D7-5/F#  C/G F/G
Takin' it to the streets

C7/E    F6    D7-5/F#  C/G F/G
Takin' it to the streets

C7/E    F6    D7-5/F#  C/G F/G
Takin' it to the streets

C7/E    F6    D7-5/F#  C/G F/G
Takin' it to the streets 

Repeat and Fade

Basically I'm playing these chords:

G/AbDF = Fm6/G

G/ACF = F/G

G/GCE = C/G

G/F#CD = D7/G

G/FCD = G7sus4

Ending:

E/EBbC
F/DAC
F#/DFbC
G/EGC
G/FAC

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All the best,






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