Temptations - I Cant Get Next To You tab

...I CAN'T GET NEXT TO YOU... by The Temptations
-----------------------------...................

*from 'Puzzle People' (1969)*


Intro:

(Spoken):

(n.c)
 Hold it, hold it, listen...

(Piano):

c, F7  Eb7, c

F  Fm7  c (n.c)

Verse 1:

c       F7     c
 I, can turn a grey sky blue, 
    c                  F7
and I can make it rain,
     c
When-ever I want it to.

   c
Oh I can build a castle,
F7      c
 From a single grain of sand,
    c                      F7
And I can make a ship sail,
    c
Uh, on dry land.

Chorus 1:

F       Fm7
 But my life is,
      c
Incom-plete and I'm so blue.
     F Fm7              c
'Cos I cant get next to you.

c                           F7
 Cant get next to you babe,
  c                    F7
I cant get next to you.
c                           F7
 Cant get next to you babe,
  c                    F7
I cant get next to you.

Verse 2:

c          F7
 I can fly like,
  c
A bird in the sky,
    c             F7
And I can buy any-thing,
     c
That money can buy.

   c                  F7
Oh I can turn a river,
c
 Into a ragin fire,
c                   F7
 I can live forever,
c
 If I so desire.

Chorus 2:

F     Fm7
 Unim-portant are,
c
 All the things I can do,
     F Fm7              c
'Cos I cant get next to you.

c                          F7
 Cant get next to you babe,
  c                    F7
I cant get next to you.

Break:
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c (n.c)

Interlude:

c             F        c
 Ooh-ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh.
c             F        c
 Ooh-ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh.

Eb  c, Eb  c
            Chick-a-boom,
Chick-a-boom,

Eb  c, Eb  c
            Chick-a-boom,
Boom, boom, boom.

Verse 3:

c
 I can turn back,
             F7
The hands of time,
    c
You better believe I can.
c                      F7
 I can make the season change,
c
 Just by wavin' my hand.

   c                F7
Oh I can change any-thing,
     c
From old to new.
    c                      F7
The thing I want to do the most,
c
 I'm unable to do.

Chorus 3:

F           Fm7
 Unhappy am I with,
c
 All the powers I possess.
F      Fm7
 Cause girl you're,
    c
The key to my happiness.
    F   Fm7
And I...

Coda:

                 c
Cant get next to you,
(Girl your blowin' my mind).
                Eb c   Eb c
'Cos I cant get ne-ext to you.
Can't you see these tears I'm crying?
           Eb c   Eb c
I cant get ne-ext to you.
Girl it's you I need, I gotta get;
Eb  c   Eb c
 Ne-ext to you.
Can't you see these tears I'm crying?
           Eb c   Eb c
I cant get ne-ext to you.

(Fade)


CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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   c       F7      Eb7     F       Fm7     Eb

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 x32010  131211  x68686  133211  131111  6654xx


Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2007
(clumsyband@hotmail.com)