Since I Lost My Baby chords by The Temptations

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice


Since I Lost My Baby by The Temptations
1965 (Smokey Robinson & Pete Moore from The Temptin Temptations)

Capo 3rd fret

C Em F C 2x

C   Em        F     C
The sun is shining, there's plenty of light (oh yeah)
 C     Em    F     C
A new day is dawning, sunny and bright (oh yeah)
C          Em
But after I've been crying all night
  C   Em      F       C
The sun is cold, and the new day seems old

C
Since I lost my baby. (Since I lost my baby.)
  F
Oh, since I lost my baby. (Oh, since I lost my baby.)

C     Em       F      C
The birds are singing and the children are playing
    C     Em      F     C
There's plenty of work and the bosses are paying
C            Em
Not a sad word should a young heart be saying
  C    Em      F     C
But fun is a bore and with money I'm poor.

C
Since I lost my baby. (Since I lost my baby.)
  F
Oh, since I lost my baby. (Oh, since I lost my baby.)

F
Next time I'll be kinder (Next time I'll be kinder)
     C       F          C
Won't you please help me find her (Won't you please help me find her)
F
Someone just remind her (Someone just remind her)
    C        F         C
Of this love she left behind her (Of this love she left behind her)
    F
Till I find her I'll be trying to (Till I find her I'll be trying to)
   C
Everyday I'm more inclined to
F
Find her
 C
Inclined to
F  C
Find her
 F     C    F C
Inclined to find my baby
F
Been looking everywhere (ba--by)
C    F
Baby, I really, really care!

C  Em    F   C
Oh, determination is fading fast (oh yeah)
C  Em     F      C
Inspiration is a thing of the past (oh yeah)
C        Em
Can't see how my hope's gonna last
C        Em       F    C
Good things are bad and what's happy is sad

C
Since I lost my baby. (Since I lost my baby.)
  F
Oh, since I lost my baby. (Oh, since I lost my baby.)

C
I feel so bad (since I lost my baby)
 F
I feel so sad (since I lost my baby)
C
Everything is wrong (since I lost my baby)
   F
This heart is hard to carry on (since I lost my baby)
  C
I'm lost as can be (since I lost my baby)
F
What's gonna happen to me? . . .

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