Barbara chords by The Temptations

Chords with lyrics

Barbara:The Temptations.
#29 on BB Hot 100 on GOLD DISC Records
in 1960.
***(NOT the Motown Temtations.)***

INTRO:
D MajorD     B minorBm    G+G      A augmentedA  G+G GbmGbm D MajorD
Barbara...Barbara...Barbara, my love.


#1.
D MajorD         B minorBm    G+G
If Barbara were an angel, I pray she'd watch
   A augmentedA
over me..(whoa, whoa, whoa.)
G+G D MajorD       B minorBm     G+G        A augmentedA
If Barbara were a queen, her servant I would be.
(whoa, whoa, whoa.)
  D MajorD        B minorBm    G+G
If Barbara would be mine and wear my high school
A augmentedA
ring..(whoa.)
     D MajorD         B minorBm    G+G
Then I'd climb the highest mountain, do just
A augmentedA D MajorD    D MajorD        B minorBm
anything..(Di-dit-dit-dit..di-dit-dit-dit..
G+G        A augmentedA
di-dit-dit-dit..dit.)

#2.
D MajorD          B minorBm        G+G
If Barbara were the winter chill I'd stand out
    A augmentedA
in the cold..(whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.)
  D MajorD       B minorBm    G+G        A augmentedA
If Barbara were a tree, her branches I would hold.
(whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.)
  D MajorD         B minorBm   G+G         A augmentedA
If Barbara would love me and say that she'd be mine.
(Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.)
  D MajorD        B minorBm   G+G    A augmentedA    D MajorD
I'd swim the deepest ocean, stop the hands of time.

BRIDGE:
G+G
Barbara, please say (that you're the one in love

with me.)
D MajorD
Don't let me lead (this life, this life of misery.)
(whoa, whoa, whoa.)
G+G            Gm7Gm7   G+G
Let me kiss your tender lips and know your secret

charms.
  A augmentedA
And let me know what real love is and hold you in
  FF A augmentedA
my armmms.

#3.
  D MajorD       B minorBm    G+G         A augmentedA
And if this love I pray for, should it all come true.
(whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.)
D MajorD        B minorBm        G+G        A augmentedA
Then with all my heart, dear, I'd love no one but you.
(whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.)
   D MajorD       B minorBm    G+G      A augmentedA
I'll hold you in my arms, for now and ever more..(whoa.)
  D MajorD       B minorBm       G+G   GbmGbm A augmentedA  D MajorD
And we will walk together through love's sac-red door.

OUTRO:
 D MajorD    B minorBm    G+G      A augmentedA
(Barbara..Barbara..Barbara, my love.
 D MajorD    B minorBm    G+G      A augmentedA
(Barbara..Barbara..Barbara, my love.
 D MajorD    B minorBm
(Barbara..Barbara..)..(Fade.)



A augmentedA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.