{"id":17623,"date":"2023-09-26T18:16:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T18:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=17623"},"modified":"2025-10-25T18:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:39:12","slug":"jessie-dont-blame-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/jessie-dont-blame-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessie – Don’t Blame Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

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This was written for Jessica two months after she and Jana left.\u00a0 Feb 5, 1982
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[C] Jessie, these [F] days have slowly [G] passed.<\/span>
\nOh [F] Jessie, you’ve [C\/e] grown up oh so [D] fast
\n[F\/e] Why”d you [C\/g] leave me?
\nYou [Am\/?] took away my [F\/c] heart.
\nOh [C\/e] Jessie, too [F] bad we [G] had to [C] part<\/span><\/p>\n

[CHORUS 1]
\n[Am] I still [F] love you.\u00a0 I [G] want to make it [C] clear.
\n[Am] Do not [F] falter, and [Bb] blame yourself through [E] tears.
\n[Am] Me and your [F] mother just [G] couldn’t make [C] amends
\n<\/span>It was [F] not your fault our [Eb] marriage [G] had to [C] end.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[C] Summers turned an [F] icy sort of [G] gray.
\nIt [F] seemed as if love [C] faded more each [D] day.
\n[F] Then came [C] Jessie.\u00a0 You [Am] took our hearts [F] away.
\nand for [C] Jessie, I [F] wanted [G] so to [C] stay.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[CHORUS 2]
\n[Am] Cause I [F] love you; and [G] that’s what makes me [C] cry.
\n[Am] I can’t [F] hold you.\u00a0 No [Bb] matter how I [E] try.
\nFor [Am] you’re now in [F] Ohio, two [G] thousand miles [C] away.
\nBut I [F] know I’ll hold you [Eb] on some [G] other [C] day.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[CHORUS 3]
\n[Am] I still [F] love you.\u00a0 I [G] want to make it [C] clear.
\n[Am] Do not [F] falter, and [Bb] blame yourself through [E] tears.
\n[Am] Me and your [F] mother just [G] wanted to be [C] friends
\nso [F] Jessie, don’t [Eb] blame [G] yourself [C] again.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was written for Jessica two months after she and Jana left.\u00a0 Feb 5, 1982 [C] Jessie, these [F] days have slowly [G] passed. Oh [F] Jessie, you’ve [C\/e] grown up oh so [D] fast [F\/e] Why”d you [C\/g] leave me? You [Am\/?] took away my [F\/c] heart. Oh [C\/e] … CLICK TO VIEW SONGJessie – Don’t Blame Yourself<\/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":[116,117,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623","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=17623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}