Chords for Bobby Womack Close To You

[E] Uh, hello, [B] _ [E] hello, how are ya?
I wonder can I borrow about 10 minutes of your time?
[E] You know how it is when you feel all alone, you feel like you got to talk to [B] somebody.
I want to talk to you.
_ [E] _
Listen to me.
Sitting here, sipping on a glass of wine.
_ _ [F#] _ _ [B] And I'm trying my [E] best not to lose my mind, [B] not to lose my mind.
_ _ You know, thinking [B] about the word, [E] commercial. _ _
[F#m] That's a [E] funny, funny, funny word.
_ You know what is funnier than that?
When show people use it.
You know what I'm talking about, like [A] [E] record companies, _
[F#] _ [E] presidents, [B] vice presidents, [E] producers.
And the little [B] engineer.
_ [E] _ _ [B] _ But you know what?
I feel [E] down in my heart.
_ [B] I don't care what it [E] is, if I can get into it, it's commercial enough for me.
_ But anyway, I remember a little while [B] back, I walked into a recording studio with [E] just me and my guitar.
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ And I remember starting out on a song.
Sort of went something like this, well it had the same melody [B] anyway.
_ _ [E] _ _ _
The head man called in, [A] president, [E] _ vice president, _ and just one of his producers. _ _
[B] And an engineer, [E] and [A] an engineer.
_ [E] You know, they all sit around [B] with their heads dropped down while I was [E] trying to get over.
_ _ [A] You could hear a [B] pin fall.
I know y'all know what I'm [E] talking about.
_ [B] And [E] I'm still trying to get over.
_ _ _ _ [B] But anyway, after I got through doing [E] my thing, or should I say doing the best that I could.
I'll never forget what they told me.
One of the guys got up and said, I [B] like you, [E] and I ain't saying that you can't sing.
But as they all began to leave the conference table, they kept on saying, what you're not commercial.
[Bm] _ [E] _ [B] Commercial, commercial, no you're not commercial.
_ _ _ [E] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [E] So I went on out.
_ _ Or should I say I sold [C#m] out.
[B] But like I said before, _ [E] music is music. _
That's how [B] it is.
_ [E] _ [B] That's the way it is.
[E] _ Well I didn't change my [A] style because I still had the same heart. _ _
[E] But just like the man said, [B] he said Bobby has [E] got to be funky. _
[F#] Woo, _ [E] _ _ [Bm] _ yeah.
[B] _
I [E] came back and said now I want to sing something that I want to sing.
A little song that says, _
[B] it says,
_ [E] _ _ [F#m] Why [A] do birds _ suddenly [G#] appear? _
[G#m] Every time _ _ [C#m] you're [A] here, _ [F#m] just like me, [A] they long to be [E] close _ to you.
Why [F#] do [A] stars [G#] fall down from the sky?
[G#m] Every time [C#m] you walk by, [A] _ just like me, _ [F#m] can't you see they just [E] want to be close to you.
_ _ Listen to me.
[A] On the day you were born, angels got together [G#m] and decided to create [C#] a dream come true. _
[F#m] So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair, _ and a glowing starlight in your [E] eyes, a [A] blue.
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[A] _ That is why [G#] all the guys in town _
[G#m] follow you, _ [C#m] follow you around, follow you around, [A] follow you around.
Just like me, _ they just [E] want to be close to you.
Well, _
[A] _ why do [G#] stars fall down from the sky? _
[G#m] Every time [C#m] you walk [A] by, just like me, _ they just want to [E] be a little bit closer to you. _ _
[A] On the day that you were born, the angels got together [G#m] and decided to create a [C#] dream come true.
[F#m] So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair, _ I see rainbows when [B] I look _ at you. _ _
[A] _ That is why _ [G#] all the guys in town _
[G#m] follow you, [C#m] you [E] around, _
[A] just like me, _ _ _ be [E] _ _ closer to you.
_ [A] I think I got a reason to say, oh, _ _ _ [A] oh, [G#] _ [E]
I want to be closer to you.
[C#m] Let me [A] say it one more time.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
I'll go [E] anywhere you want me to go, buy you anything that you want me to buy.
[A] But oh baby, _ _ _ [E] I got to get a little closer to you.
_ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ Yes sir.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [N] _