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Barbara Chords by The Temptations

Barbara chords by The Temptations

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

INTRO:
D         Bm        G           A   G Gbm D
Barbara...Barbara...Barbara, my love.


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

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

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

with me.)
D
Don't let me lead (this life, this life of misery.)
(whoa, whoa, whoa.)
G                       Gm7      G
Let me kiss your tender lips and know your secret

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

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

OUTRO:
 D        Bm       G           A
(Barbara..Barbara..Barbara, my love.
 D        Bm       G           A
(Barbara..Barbara..Barbara, my love.
 D        Bm
(Barbara..Barbara..)..(Fade.)




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