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    C                 
 And I can make it rain, when-ever I want it to.
     C                    F7      C                    
 Oh, I can build a castle, from a single grain of sand,
     C                      F7   C           
 And I can make a ship sail, uh, on dry land.
 
 Chorus 1:
 
 F       Fm7           C                     
  But my life is incom-plete and I'm so blue.
      F Fm7               C   
 'Cos I can't get next to you.
 
 C                            F7 C                     F7 
  Can't get next to you, babe, I can't get next to you.
 C                            F7 C                     F7 
  Can't get next to you, babe, I can't get next to you.
 
 Verse 2:
 
 C           F7     C               
  I can fly, like a bird in the sky,
     C             F7          C             
 And I can buy any-thing, that money can buy.
     C                  F7 C                   
 Oh, I can turn a river,  into a ragin' fire,
 C                   F7 C               
  I can live forever,  If I so desire.
 
 Chorus 2:
 
 F     Fm7         C                       
  Unim-portant are all the things I can do,
      F Fm7               C   
 'Cos I can't get next to you.
 
 C                            F7 C                     F7 
  Can't get next to you, babe, I can't 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                             F7        C                    
  I can turn back the hands of time; you better believe I can.
 C                      F7      C                      
  I can make the season change, just by wavin' my hand.
     C                F7         C          
 Oh, I can change any-thing from old to new.
     C                      F7   C                 
 The thing I want to do the most; I'm unable to do.
 
 Chorus 3:
 
 F           Fm7     C                        
  Unhappy am I, with all the powers I possess.
 F     Fm7              C                   
  'Cos girl, you're the key to my happiness.
     F   Fm7 
 And I...
 
 Coda:
 
                  C                                   
 Cant get next to you, (girl, you're 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 
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