I Can’t Make You Love Me – Bonnie Raitt

CAPO 3

[Intro]

C  Em9    C   Gsus2/B   Em7  Am7 x4

C  Em7(4) C   G    Am7


[Verse]

C             Em7                   C
Turn down the lights, turn down the bed 
                G     Em7      Am7
Turn down these voices inside my head 
C             Em7            C
Lay down with me, tell me no lies 
             G    Em7       Am7 
Just hold me close, don't patronize 
           G   D
Don't patronize me


[Chorus]

G/B           C        G               C 
Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
                     G         G           C
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Em7         C      D         Em7           
Here in the dark, in these final hours
                   G       D          Em7
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
    Am7             G  D
But you won't, no, you won't
              C         G     C       C    Em7  C  G  Am7
Cause I can't make you love me  if you don't


[Verse]

C             Em7                 C
I'll close my eyes, then I won't see
                   G       Em7            Am7
The love you don't feel when you're holding me
C            Em7                     C
Morning will come and I'll do what's right
                  G      Em7          Am7
Just give me till then to give up this fight 
           G           D
And I will give up this fight


[Chorus]

G           C        G               C 
Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
                     G         G           C
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Em7         G      D         Em7           
Here in the dark, in these final hours
                   G       D          Em7
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
    Am7             G  D
But you won't, no, you won't
              C         G     G      C    Em7  C  G Am7
Cause I can't make you love me  if you don't


[Outro]
 
(w/Ooh's)

C  Em7    C   G    Am7
C  Em7    C   G    Am7
C  Em9    C   G    Am7
C  Em7    C   G    C    Fmaj9
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Key

Bb

Capo

3

Shapes

G

Phillip Instrument

PNO

Sabrina Instrument

AGT

Riffs

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