The Temptations - I Can't Get Next to You

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

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 *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:
 
 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)