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Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Chord diagramEb MajorEb

Difficulty: Intermediate

PIECE OF CLAY (1973) - MARVIN GAYE

INTRO:
Chord diagramAbAb  Chord diagramEb/GEb/G  Chord diagramFm7Fm7  Chord diagramEb MajorEb
Chord diagramAbAb  Chord diagramEb/GEb/G  Chord diagramFm7Fm7  Chord diagramEb MajorEb
Chord diagramAbAb  Chord diagramEb/GEb/G  Chord diagramFm7Fm7  Chord diagramEb MajorEb
Chord diagramAbAb  Chord diagramEb/GEb/G  Chord diagramFm7Fm7  Chord diagramEb MajorEb


VERSE I:
Chord diagramAbAb       Chord diagramEb/GEb/G Chord diagramFm7Fm7  Ab/Bb       Ebsus Chord diagramEb MajorEb Chord diagramEb7Eb7
 Father, stop criticizing your son
Chord diagramAbAb        Chord diagramEb/GEb/G  Chord diagramFm7Fm7         Ab/Bb      Ebsus Chord diagramEb MajorEb Chord diagramEb7Eb7
 Mother, please, leave your daughters alone
Chord diagramAbAb                    Chord diagramEb/GEb/G
 Don't you see that's what wrong
Chord diagramGm7Gm7                     Chord diagramG7G7      Chord diagramC minorCm  Chord diagramEb7Eb7
With the world with the world today? Oh
CHORUS:
Chord diagramAbAb               Chord diagramEb/GEb/G
 Everybody wants somebody
            Chord diagramFm7Fm7 AbM7/Bb  Chord diagramEb MajorEb  Chord diagramEb7Eb7
To be their own piece of clay
Chord diagramAbAb                 Chord diagramEb/GEb/G
 We all talk about kindness
         Chord diagramFm7Fm7   Ab/Bb  Chord diagramEb MajorEb   Chord diagramEb7Eb7
But it's only, only a word, truly
Chord diagramAbAb               Chord diagramEb/GEb/G           Chord diagramFm7Fm7    Ab/Bb  Chord diagramEb MajorEb  Chord diagramEb7Eb7
 Brother turn on sister in this cruel, cruel world
Chord diagramAbAb      Chord diagramEb/GEb/G        Chord diagramG7G7    G7/B           Chord diagramC minorCm    Eb7/Bb
 That's what's wrong with, oh, with this world today
Chord diagramAbAb               Chord diagramEb MajorEb
 Everybody wants somebody
            Chord diagramAb6Ab6 AbM7/Bb  Chord diagramEb MajorEb Chord diagramEb7Eb7
To be their own piece of clay


VERSE II:


CHORUS:
Chord diagramAbAb               Chord diagramEb MajorEb
 Everybody wants somebody
            Chord diagramAb6Ab6 AbM7/Bb  Chord diagramEb MajorEb  Chord diagramEb7Eb7
To be their own piece of clay
Chord diagramAbAb               Chord diagramEb MajorEb
 Everybody wants somebody
            Chord diagramAb6Ab6 AbM7/Bb  Chord diagramEb MajorEb Chord diagramEb7Eb7
To be their own piece of clay
VERSE III:
Chord diagramAbAb Chord diagramEb/GEb/G           Chord diagramFm7Fm7  Ab/Bb    Chord diagramEb MajorEb          Chord diagramEb7Eb7
    Everybody wants somebody to play with 'em
      Chord diagramAbAb              Chord diagramEb/GEb/G
Wanna mold you, wanna mold you
                  Chord diagramFm7Fm7   Chord diagramBb7Bb7               Chord diagramEb MajorEb  Chord diagramEb7Eb7
Shape it like you wanna, want to do their thing
Chord diagramAbAb            Chord diagramEb/GEb/G    Chord diagramG7G7       G7/B     Chord diagramC minorCm  Eb7/Bb
 Children are told to give and not just to take
Chord diagramAbAb              Chord diagramEb MajorEb
 If we were all children
             Chord diagramAb6Ab6        Ab6/Bb      Chord diagramEb7Eb7
You know the world will be a better place, oh


CHORUS:
Chord diagramAbAb               Chord diagramEb MajorEb
 Everybody wants somebody
            Chord diagramAb6Ab6 AbM7/Bb  Chord diagramEb7Eb7
To be their own piece of clay


BRIDGE:
              Chord diagramCmadd9Cmadd9
We should all love each other
          AbM7
Love, not hate one another
              Chord diagramCmadd9Cmadd9
We should all love each other
          Chord diagramFm7Fm7 N.C.
Love, not hate, oh


CHORUS:
Chord diagramAbAb               Chord diagramEb/GEb/G
 Everybody wants somebody
            Chord diagramFm7Fm7 Ab/Bb    Chord diagramEb MajorEb   Chord diagramEb7Eb7
To be their own piece of clay, yeah
Chord diagramAbAb               Chord diagramEb/GEb/G
 Everybody wants somebody
            Chord diagramFm7Fm7 Ab/Bb    Chord diagramEb MajorEb  Chord diagramEb7Eb7
To be their own piece of clay
      Chord diagramAbAb               Chord diagramEb/GEb/G
Truly, everybody wants somebody
            Chord diagramFm7Fm7       Ab/Bb      Chord diagramEb7Eb7
To mold 'em, shape 'em their own way
Chord diagramAbAb               Chord diagramEb/GEb/G
 Everybody wants somebody
          Chord diagramFm7Fm7          Ab/Bb     Chord diagramEb9Eb9
To try to make it, oh, do their, do their thing
Chord diagramAbAb                  Chord diagramEb/GEb/G
 Everybody wants to take somebody
          Chord diagramFm7Fm7       AbM7/Bb             Chord diagramEb9Eb9
To try to make 'em, make 'em like their self, oh
Chord diagramAbAb               Chord diagramEb/GEb/G
 Everybody wants somebody
            Chord diagramFm7Fm7 Ab/Bb    Chord diagramEb9Eb9
To be their own piece of clay, yeah


OUTRO:
Chord diagramAbAb               Chord diagramEb/GEb/G
 Everybody wants somebody
   Chord diagramFm7Fm7      Ab6/Bb       Chord diagramEb9Eb9
To be their own piece of clay, yeah
Chord diagramAbAb        Chord diagramEb/GEb/G
 Somebody, somebody
Chord diagramFm7Fm7 Ab7/Bb    Chord diagramEb9Eb9
    Somebody, somebody, somebody
Chord diagramAbAb        Chord diagramEb/GEb/G
 Somebody, somebody
Chord diagramFm7Fm7 Ab7/Bb    Chord diagramEb9Eb9
    Somebody, somebody, somebody
Chord diagramAbAb        Chord diagramEb/GEb/G
 Somebody, somebody
Chord diagramFm7Fm7 Ab7/Bb    Chord diagramEb9Eb9
    Somebody, somebody, somebody

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