Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Key: Eb MajorEb
Difficulty: Intermediate
PIECE OF CLAY (1973) - MARVIN GAYE
INTRO:
AbAb Eb/GEb/G Fm7Fm7 Eb MajorEb
AbAb Eb/GEb/G Fm7Fm7 Eb MajorEb
AbAb Eb/GEb/G Fm7Fm7 Eb MajorEb
AbAb Eb/GEb/G Fm7Fm7 Eb MajorEb
VERSE I:
AbAb Eb/GEb/G Fm7Fm7 Ab/Bb Ebsus Eb MajorEb Eb7Eb7
Father, stop criticizing your son
AbAb Eb/GEb/G Fm7Fm7 Ab/Bb Ebsus Eb MajorEb Eb7Eb7
Mother, please, leave your daughters alone
AbAb Eb/GEb/G
Don't you see that's what wrong
Gm7Gm7 G7G7 C minorCm Eb7Eb7
With the world with the world today? Oh
CHORUS:
AbAb Eb/GEb/G
Everybody wants somebody
Fm7Fm7 AbM7/Bb Eb MajorEb Eb7Eb7
To be their own piece of clay
AbAb Eb/GEb/G
We all talk about kindness
Fm7Fm7 Ab/Bb Eb MajorEb Eb7Eb7
But it's only, only a word, truly
AbAb Eb/GEb/G Fm7Fm7 Ab/Bb Eb MajorEb Eb7Eb7
Brother turn on sister in this cruel, cruel world
AbAb Eb/GEb/G G7G7 G7/B C minorCm Eb7/Bb
That's what's wrong with, oh, with this world today
AbAb Eb MajorEb
Everybody wants somebody
Ab6Ab6 AbM7/Bb Eb MajorEb Eb7Eb7
To be their own piece of clay
VERSE II:
CHORUS:
AbAb Eb MajorEb
Everybody wants somebody
Ab6Ab6 AbM7/Bb Eb MajorEb Eb7Eb7
To be their own piece of clay
AbAb Eb MajorEb
Everybody wants somebody
Ab6Ab6 AbM7/Bb Eb MajorEb Eb7Eb7
To be their own piece of clay
VERSE III:
AbAb Eb/GEb/G Fm7Fm7 Ab/Bb Eb MajorEb Eb7Eb7
Everybody wants somebody to play with 'em
AbAb Eb/GEb/G
Wanna mold you, wanna mold you
Fm7Fm7 Bb7Bb7 Eb MajorEb Eb7Eb7
Shape it like you wanna, want to do their thing
AbAb Eb/GEb/G G7G7 G7/B C minorCm Eb7/Bb
Children are told to give and not just to take
AbAb Eb MajorEb
If we were all children
Ab6Ab6 Ab6/Bb Eb7Eb7
You know the world will be a better place, oh
CHORUS:
AbAb Eb MajorEb
Everybody wants somebody
Ab6Ab6 AbM7/Bb Eb7Eb7
To be their own piece of clay
BRIDGE:
Cmadd9Cmadd9
We should all love each other
AbM7
Love, not hate one another
Cmadd9Cmadd9
We should all love each other
Fm7Fm7 N.C.
Love, not hate, oh
CHORUS:
AbAb Eb/GEb/G
Everybody wants somebody
Fm7Fm7 Ab/Bb Eb MajorEb Eb7Eb7
To be their own piece of clay, yeah
AbAb Eb/GEb/G
Everybody wants somebody
Fm7Fm7 Ab/Bb Eb MajorEb Eb7Eb7
To be their own piece of clay
AbAb Eb/GEb/G
Truly, everybody wants somebody
Fm7Fm7 Ab/Bb Eb7Eb7
To mold 'em, shape 'em their own way
AbAb Eb/GEb/G
Everybody wants somebody
Fm7Fm7 Ab/Bb Eb9Eb9
To try to make it, oh, do their, do their thing
AbAb Eb/GEb/G
Everybody wants to take somebody
Fm7Fm7 AbM7/Bb Eb9Eb9
To try to make 'em, make 'em like their self, oh
AbAb Eb/GEb/G
Everybody wants somebody
Fm7Fm7 Ab/Bb Eb9Eb9
To be their own piece of clay, yeah
OUTRO:
AbAb Eb/GEb/G
Everybody wants somebody
Fm7Fm7 Ab6/Bb Eb9Eb9
To be their own piece of clay, yeah
AbAb Eb/GEb/G
Somebody, somebody
Fm7Fm7 Ab7/Bb Eb9Eb9
Somebody, somebody, somebody
AbAb Eb/GEb/G
Somebody, somebody
Fm7Fm7 Ab7/Bb Eb9Eb9
Somebody, somebody, somebody
AbAb Eb/GEb/G
Somebody, somebody
Fm7Fm7 Ab7/Bb Eb9Eb9
Somebody, somebody, somebody