The Supremes - Love Child

      
 
 Love Child - Diana Ross & the Supremes 1968
 
 #1.
 Bm                                
  You think that I don't feel love,
 C                                     
  But what I feel for you is real love.
 Am                               
  In other's eyes I see reflected,
   F              E7         
 a hurt, scorned... rejected.
 
 CHORUS:
 Am            G                 
 Love child... never meant to be.
 F             E               
 Love child... born in poverty.
 Am            G                 
 Love child... never meant to be.
 F             E                 
 Love child... take a look at me.
 
 #2.
   Am                       G          D       Am                            
 I started my life... in an old, cold, rundown tenement slum (tenement slum).
    G               D          Am          
 My father left, he never even married Mom.
   C#m7                C         
 I shared the guilt my Mama knew,
 D              F             E           
 so afraid that others knew I had no name.
 
 CHORUS:#2.
 Bm                             
  This love we're contemplatin',
 C                             
  Is worth the pain of waitin'.
 Am                        
  We'll only end up hatin',
 F             E7              
  The child we may be creatin'.
 
 Am            G                 
 Love child... never meant to be.
 F             E                  
 Love child... scorned by society.
 Am            G                  
 Love child... always second best.
 F             E                       
 Love child... different from the rest.
 
 Am                    G     D    
  (Hold on, Hold on)...Mmmm, baby.
 Am                    G     D    
  (Hold on, Hold on)...Mmmm, baby.
 
 #2.
 Am                       G          D         
 I started school... in a worn, torn dress that
     Am             
 somebody threw out.
   G               D               Am            
 I knew the way it felt, to always live in doubt,
    C#m7           C             
 to be without the simple things,
 D            F                       E           
 so afraid my friends would see...the guilt in me.
 
 Bm                                
  Don't think that I don't need ya,
 C                                    
  Don't think I don't wanna please ya.
 Am                                  
  But no child of mine'll be bearin',
 F           E7                      
 the name of shame I've been wearin'.
 
 Am                        G                   
 Love child, Love child... never quite as good,
 F                    E             
 afraid... ashamed... misunderstood.
 
 Outro:
     Am          G           F            E            Am  
 But I'll always love you....I'll, always love you hoo hoo.
             G           F            E            Am  
 I'll always love you....I'll, always love you hoo hoo.
             G           F            E            Am  
 I'll always love you....I'll, always love you hoo hoo.
         G            F                   E            Am  
 you hoo hoo, you hoo hoo... I'll, always love you hoo hoo.
              G                              F                       E   
 Take a look, take a look, take a look at me  Love child love child, ohhh
 
 Am           G           F            E            Am  
  I'll always love you....I'll, always love you hoo hoo.