{"id":1132,"date":"2021-05-10T06:13:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:16:12","slug":"why-me-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/why-me-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Me Lord?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Kris Kristofferson &#8211; Key of C &#8211; Key of A BELOW<\/p>\n<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea619b029ca9075576667' value='69ea619b029ca9075576667'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea619b029ca9075576667' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea619b029ca9075576667' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea619b029ca9075576667' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea619b029ca9075576667' ><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900\">In this song, Kris Kristofferson has an epiphany, asking Jesus why he has blessed him so. It came from a genuine revelation when he went to church with the country singer Connie Smith.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[G] Why me Lord, [G7] what have I ever [C] done, to deserve even [G] one of the pleasures I&#8217;ve [D7] known.\u00a0 Tell me [G] Lord, [G7] what did I ever [C] do, that was worth loving [D7] you, or the kindness you&#8217;ve [G] shown.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; [C] Lord help me Jesus, I&#8217;ve [G] wasted it so.\u00a0 Help me [D7] Jesus I know what I [G] am.\u00a0 [C] Now that I know that I&#8217;ve [G] needed you so;\u00a0 Help me [D7] Jesus, my soul&#8217;s in your hand. [G]<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[G] Tell me Lord, [G7] if you think there&#8217;s a [C] way I can try to re-[G]-pay all I&#8217;ve taken from [D7] you. \u00a0 Maybe [G] Lord, I can [G7] show someone [C] else what I&#8217;ve been through [D7] myself on my way back to [G] you.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\">KEY OF A<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[E] Why me Lord, [E7] what have I ever [A] done, to deserve even [E] one of the pleasures I&#8217;ve [B7] known.\u00a0 Tell me [E] Lord, [E7] what did I ever [A] do, that was worth loving [B7] you, or the kindness you&#8217;ve [E] shown.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; [A] Lord help me Jesus, I&#8217;ve [E] wasted it so.\u00a0 Help me [B7] Jesus I know what I [E] am.\u00a0 [A] Now that I know that I&#8217;ve [E] needed you so;\u00a0 Help me [B7] Jesus, my soul&#8217;s in your hand. [E]<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[E] Tell me Lord, [E7] if you think there&#8217;s a [A] way I can try to re-[E]-pay all I&#8217;ve taken from [B7] you. \u00a0 Maybe [E] Lord, I can [E7] show someone [A] else what I&#8217;ve been through [B7] myself on my way back to [E] you.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"western\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kris Kristofferson &#8211; Key of C &#8211; Key of A BELOW [G] Why me Lord, [G7] what have I ever [C] done, to deserve even [G] one of the pleasures I&#8217;ve [D7] known.\u00a0 Tell me [G] Lord, [G7] what did I ever [C] do, that was worth loving [D7] &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/why-me-lord\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Me Lord?<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,120,133,126,265,56,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-country-western","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30279,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/30279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}