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Help Me Make It Through The Night

(Kris Kristofferson)


Copyright Combine Music Corporation

Original by Kris Kristofferson on October 20, 1969


RCA studio session - May 15-19, 1971 - RCA's Studio B - Nashville

 May 17, 6-9 pm, 9 pm-12-am, 1-4 am

APA4 1273-sp - Splice of takes 11 and 16 ending


Overdub session for RCA studio - June 22, 1971 - RCA's Studios - Hollywood

 APA4 1273-sp - Splice of takes 11 and 16 ending
January 1972 LP RCA LSP 4671 Elvis Now
Outtakes:
Take 3: October 15, 1996 CD RCA 07863 65136-2 Elvis Great Country Songs
Take 6 and 7: August 1, 2007 CD FTD 88697 03631-2 I Sing All Kinds - The Nashville 1971 Sessions
Takes 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 15: April 1, 2010 CD FTD 506020-975010 CD Elvis Now





Version 1          Version 2          Version 3   




Take the ribbon from your hair
Shake it loose, let it fall
Lay it soft against my skin
Like the shadow on the wall


Come and lay down by my side
Till the early morning light
All I'm taking is your time
Help me make it through the night


* I don't care what's right or wrong
I won't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow
'Cause tonight I need a friend


** Yesterday is dead and gone
And tomorrow's out of sight
And it's sad to be alone
Help me make it through the night


* Repeat


** Repeat


I don't want to be alone
Help me make it through the night 



Standard tuning.
    Intro:  E   Esus4   E

                              E
    Take the ribbon from your hair
             E7            A
    Shake it loose, let it fall
                           B
    Lay it soft against my skin
                           E         E7
    Like the shadow on the wall
                            E
    Come and lay down by my side
             E7            A
    Till the early morning light
                           B
    All I’m taking is your time
                                E       E7
    Help me make it through the night

                                 A
    I don't care what's right or wrong
                        E
    I won't try to understand
                         F#
    Let the devil take tomorrow
                     B
    'Cause tonight I need a friend

    (tacet)               E
    Yesterday is dead and gone
          E7              A
    And tomorrow's out of sight
                        B
    And it's sad to be alone
                                E        E7
    Help me make it through the night

                                 A
    I don't care what's right or wrong
                        E
    I won't try to understand
                         F#
    Let the devil take tomorrow
                     B
    'Cause tonight I need a friend

    (tacet)               E
    Yesterday is dead and gone
          E7              A
    And tomorrow's out of sight
                        B
    And it's sad to be alone
                                E        A
    Help me make it through the night
                        B
    I don't want to be alone
                                E        A
    Help me make it through the night
                        B
    I don't want to be alone
                                E        A       E
    Help me make it through the night



Version 2 

c			  c7
Take the ribbon from your hair
			  f
shake it loose and let it fall
			g7
layin' soft against my skin
      			c
like the shadows on the wall
Come and lay down by my side
till the early morning light
all i'm taking is your time
help me make it throught the night
c        g7                 f
I don't care who's right or wrong
               c
I don't try to understand
        g7         d7
let the devil take tomorrow
		      g7
Lord tonight I need a friend
Yesterday is dead and gone


and tomorrow is out of sight
and it's sad to be alone
help me make it throught the night
c                    g7
Lord it's sad to be alone
			    c
help me make it through the night