Chords for Smokey Robinson - Smokey & Friends EPK

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[D] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [C] _ I don't like you, but I love [D] you.
Being with you, [Bm] being with you.
Boy, [F] it's all _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] cruising together.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ Is there a [G] thing that you want to do, and [A] I can tell you. _
[G] The [D] way you do the things you do. _ _
The way you do the things you [D] do.
_ The way you do the things you do.
I said, do you want to sing on the Smokey [Em] record?
And they said, yeah.
So they gave them a list of my songs.
They picked their favorite song, [A] and [B] that's the song.
Oh, yeah, that's [Gbm] cool.
[Bb] _ _ [B] Everybody would reach out and just wanted to be on this.
[Gb] _ _ [B] We're trying [Gbm] to captivate [Bm] some new audience members,
[Abm] and I would just [Gb] like them to take away from it that somebody who is in their [Ab] era
or in their [Abm] genre of music that they [B] like is [Gbm] singing with me.
But, [Ab] you know, thinking of, well, [D] Smokey and Elton would sound great on this together,
or [E] Smokey and [B] James, this is interesting.
So, you know, it was really more [E] about that, where their [B] voices could fit,
what it would [G] lead, what it would sound like.
Quiet [F] Storm.
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_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ I [F] heard John Legend sing [Bb] Quiet Storm on one of his shows live,
and after the show, [F] I went over to him and said, John, [C] you should record that man, [Bb] please.
He said, oh, Smokey, that's [F] a good idea, but he never [Am] did until now.
[C] I've been exposed to [A] Smokey's writing since I was a very young [C] child.
It's been [F] highly influential to me.
His sense of phrasing and poetry [Ab] and [G] elegance,
[Bbm] that voice is so [C] _ singular and distinct and beautiful,
and [Gm] it just kind of floats on top of the [F] record. _ _ _
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So [Bm] they tell me love me
I had my [G] first group when I [Gbm] was probably about 11 or 12,
and we called ourselves the Five [Bm] Chimes.
Oh, [G] I didn't know music was going to work out.
All I knew is that I was doing it,
and this [A] was my lifelong _ childhood from like 4 or [D] 5 years old _ [Bm] coming true.
He's around [A] not just because [D] he's a great artist, a great singer, and a great [Bm] poet,
but because everyone [Fm] loves him.
_ [Eb] I'm standing in the mirror and [Ab] I'm shaving,
_ [F] _ and I'm just looking and I'm kind of humming the thing.
[Ab] I thought to myself, I said, now what if [Bb] a person _ [C] [Ab] had cried so much
_ until if you [Bb] really got close on them and [Eb] examined their face,
you would see tracks that their [Bb] tears had made.
The tracks [Eb] of my [Ab] tears
_ Smokey [Eb] Robinson _ first came into my life
[Bb] when I was a teenager collecting a soul record.
[Ab] _ Seeming like I'm having [F] fun
[Eb] I was lucky enough to pick Tracks of [Ab] My Tears
because _
_ [Bb] I've always loved this song.
[Eb] Probably maybe [Ab] the greatest pop song I've ever written.
[F] _ [Eb] _ For somebody like Elton [Ab] to sing
that one _ [Bb] of my songs _ [Ab] is one of his favorite [C] songs
and he thinks it's the greatest song ever written, I can't beat that.
I don't like you, but I _ love you
[Am] Seems that _ way, thinking of [A] you
[F] It's the classic opening line for a song.
I don't like you, but I love you.
Seems that I'm always thinking of you.
[A] What _ just brilliant! _
[C] I don't want you, but I need [A] you
The [Am] music was infectious to the point of you made out with it,
you made love to it, you went to high school to it.
It was [C] just a huge era.
You can do [F] me wrong now
My [D] love is strong now
[G] You really gotta [C] put on the show
I had no idea what Steven was going to do
with [Am] You Really Gotta Hold On Me.
So he did it live.
With the big screaming guitars and all that stuff like [C] that.
So that's who he is.
Steven Tyler is a rock.
[F] And he's still relevant, he still sings, and he still plays.
[Cm] He still sings great. _
_ _ It's [G] just a national treasure. Hey, _ _ _ oh
_ [C] _ _ _
_ Yo, that felt good.
Let's [Eb] not lose that.
Let's go right away again.
Okay.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ Jessie J sounded to [G] me [Bb] like this [Eb] soulful little black girl
[Bb] who was from _ New York, [Eb] East LA, or [Fm] somewhere like that.
And if [Eb] you want it, you got it [Cm] forever
_ _ _ [Eb] This is not a one-night stand
Not a one [Fm]-night stand
[Ab] _ _ Come to find out she's this little [Eb] English girl
who is one [Ab] of the best singers I've ever heard.
_ _ [Bb] _ Her version, or her take on [Fm] cruising, _ is so soulful.
[Eb] _ When they first played it for me, [Ab] she had done it before I did it.
When Randy first played it for me, [Db] I said, I don't [Bb] want to see this now.
[Eb] I said, we should just put this on the record just with her singing.
_ _ Because she [Ab] absolutely _ killed it.
[Db] She [Bb] annihilated it.
Baby, baby, baby, [C] baby _
[Ab] Got _ _ my [Bb] face, love my face
You see my [Ab] smile, looks out of [C] place
My greatest joy [Eb] of hearing other people [Ab] interpret my songs _ [Bb] is
See, [Eb] first of all, all these people that [Ab] I'm working with on this record are professionals.
[Eb] And when they sing my songs, hey man, that's a joy.
[Ab] To hear Steven or _ _ [Bb] John or Elton or any [Eb] of those people sing my songs
[Ab] is a dream come true.
[Bb] _ But [Eb] however, _ [Ab] that same dream comes true [Bb] for me
[Eb] If I hear you humming [Ab] it, if I hear you [Eb] _ just singing it around your house
[Ab] or _ in the shower
[Bb] _ _
[Ab] I [Eb] just [Ab] love _ hearing my [Bb] songs sung [Eb] by other people.
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