"It's Not My Cross to Bear" is a song by the Allman Brothers Band, written by Gregg Allman, that was released on their 1969 debut album. The song was written about a former lover that Gregg knew.[1] It was also one of the first songs Gregg introduced to the group.[2] The song was often performed live in conjunction with Spencer Davis' "Don't Want You No More", due to the way the record was produced.^{[clarification needed]} In 1986, Gregg recorded an arrangement for his record, I'm No Angel.

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Blues resemblance

The song conveys the feel and tone of a blues song, but does not follow any of the usual eight-bar blues or twelve-bar blues progressions. The song has harmonic resemblance to Howlin' Wolf's recordings of "Sitting on Top of the World" in its inclusion of a minor IV chord in the fourth measure of the progression, while also harmonically resembling "Trouble in Mind", a blues standard.[3] The eight-bar blues progression in "It's Not My Cross to Bear" is played using B major as the tonic chord:[3]

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