Chords for Temptations Lead Singer LIving a Quiet Life in North St. Louis County
Tempo:
130.4 bpm
Chords used:
C
Bb
G
Cm
F
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Okay, time now for a little musical quiz.
Name the St.
Louisan who is not only a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
but also has the distinction of recording Motown Records' first Grammy award-winning song.
Did you guess Chuck Berry?
Wrong.
Johnny Johnson?
Wrong.
Tina Turner is also wrong.
[Bb] Let Fox News' Glenn Zimmerman give you a little hint in tonight's Fox Files.
[G] [Bbm]
Tucked away in a quiet, [Bb] nondescript St.
Louis [Db] suburb lives a music legend, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer,
a five-time Grammy award winner, and the lead singer of this iconic song.
[F] [A] [Dbm]
[Db] Say hello to St.
Louisan Dennis Edwards.
It was the best thing I ever done was to move back [Eb] to St.
Louis.
[G] Edwards was the lead [C] singer of The Temptation.
[N] Yes, those Temptations.
His gritty, soulful, gospel [F] voice was the sound of the Motown group [C] in the late 60s and 70s.
It's [Fm] his voice that fueled the number one [Ab] hit like I Can't Get [C] Next to You,
[Dm] Runaway Child, Running [C] Wild, [N] and Motown's first ever [Dm] Grammy award-winning single, Cloud Nine.
[D] [Bb] Before he joined, the group was the classic [Eb] five.
David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Otis Williams, [Bb] Melvin Franklin, and Paul [Ab] Williams.
They had a string of hits in the 60s, but success [Em] and drugs were going [Cm] to David Ruffin's head, [Gm] and he was on his way out.
He [C] was just a complete entertainer.
I didn't know about [Bb] his personal life, but he was a complete entertainer.
Well, [N] anyway, you know, I'm sitting there, man.
I'm like, Temptations.
So he said, you let me know.
Let me know.
So I went home, you know.
It wasn't about 10 minutes.
So I called him and I said, I said, I said, yes, I would love to try out.
[Cm] [G] [C] His
[Bb] [G] entrance into the group coincided with a shift in the [C] band's sound.
It was more toward the psychedelic soul sound of the 70s.
It was an exciting time.
[G] I had no idea.
You know, I'm thinking, I'm in Temptations.
[Ab] I'm a superstar.
I'm going to get all the girls and this is going to be so much fun.
I had to meet at eight o'clock in the morning for rehearsal.
I'm like, what's this?
1968 was his coming out [Ebm] party, the nationally televised TCB [Ab] special with Diana Ross and the Supremes.
I kind of [G] realized why David acted like he did, [C] because I [Bbm] must have did 12 songs [Eb] out [Cm] of 15 songs.
If you're not screwed on right, [F] you will have a Temptations in the neck.
[Bbm] So is that when you knew that [Cm] you made it?
We never really thought of [F] the [Eb] magnitude [Bb]
of the [Cm] success that we had.
And success they had.
And with that came real world temptation.
You know, the myth was [N] if you got something, you get some weed or some cocaine, you perform better.
Even though there was [G] more music success like the [D] 1984 hit Don't Look Any Further [A] with Saeeda Garrett,
his [N] life was slowly getting out of control.
You know, I would go out and three or four or five days and get high and I could never, I didn't know.
One day I found out, I said, what am I doing?
So he packed up.
He moved from L.A. to St.
Louis and moved in with mom.
When I got here, I was a little messed up.
I'm wasn't on drugs, but she knew mom can look at the kids.
She knew something was wrong.
She said, you sit down.
And I said, yes, ma'am.
But you are in St.
Louis and you're going to go to church with me.
It was the best move for me in my life.
He has his life back on track now and does three or four shows a month across the globe with his Temptations review.
But what he enjoys most is his role as a husband, as a father and as a St.
Louisan.
It's a great life here.
Great family town.
I love the Cardinals, love the Rams, love the Blues.
And, you know, I'm a St.
Louisan now.
Great story.
I love how mom got him right back on track.
Oh, yeah.
Moms have a way of doing that, don't they? They do.
Oh, man, they are a great group.
That's great
Name the St.
Louisan who is not only a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
but also has the distinction of recording Motown Records' first Grammy award-winning song.
Did you guess Chuck Berry?
Wrong.
Johnny Johnson?
Wrong.
Tina Turner is also wrong.
[Bb] Let Fox News' Glenn Zimmerman give you a little hint in tonight's Fox Files.
[G] [Bbm]
Tucked away in a quiet, [Bb] nondescript St.
Louis [Db] suburb lives a music legend, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer,
a five-time Grammy award winner, and the lead singer of this iconic song.
[F] [A] [Dbm]
[Db] Say hello to St.
Louisan Dennis Edwards.
It was the best thing I ever done was to move back [Eb] to St.
Louis.
[G] Edwards was the lead [C] singer of The Temptation.
[N] Yes, those Temptations.
His gritty, soulful, gospel [F] voice was the sound of the Motown group [C] in the late 60s and 70s.
It's [Fm] his voice that fueled the number one [Ab] hit like I Can't Get [C] Next to You,
[Dm] Runaway Child, Running [C] Wild, [N] and Motown's first ever [Dm] Grammy award-winning single, Cloud Nine.
[D] [Bb] Before he joined, the group was the classic [Eb] five.
David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Otis Williams, [Bb] Melvin Franklin, and Paul [Ab] Williams.
They had a string of hits in the 60s, but success [Em] and drugs were going [Cm] to David Ruffin's head, [Gm] and he was on his way out.
He [C] was just a complete entertainer.
I didn't know about [Bb] his personal life, but he was a complete entertainer.
Well, [N] anyway, you know, I'm sitting there, man.
I'm like, Temptations.
So he said, you let me know.
Let me know.
So I went home, you know.
It wasn't about 10 minutes.
So I called him and I said, I said, I said, yes, I would love to try out.
[Cm] [G] [C] His
[Bb] [G] entrance into the group coincided with a shift in the [C] band's sound.
It was more toward the psychedelic soul sound of the 70s.
It was an exciting time.
[G] I had no idea.
You know, I'm thinking, I'm in Temptations.
[Ab] I'm a superstar.
I'm going to get all the girls and this is going to be so much fun.
I had to meet at eight o'clock in the morning for rehearsal.
I'm like, what's this?
1968 was his coming out [Ebm] party, the nationally televised TCB [Ab] special with Diana Ross and the Supremes.
I kind of [G] realized why David acted like he did, [C] because I [Bbm] must have did 12 songs [Eb] out [Cm] of 15 songs.
If you're not screwed on right, [F] you will have a Temptations in the neck.
[Bbm] So is that when you knew that [Cm] you made it?
We never really thought of [F] the [Eb] magnitude [Bb]
of the [Cm] success that we had.
And success they had.
And with that came real world temptation.
You know, the myth was [N] if you got something, you get some weed or some cocaine, you perform better.
Even though there was [G] more music success like the [D] 1984 hit Don't Look Any Further [A] with Saeeda Garrett,
his [N] life was slowly getting out of control.
You know, I would go out and three or four or five days and get high and I could never, I didn't know.
One day I found out, I said, what am I doing?
So he packed up.
He moved from L.A. to St.
Louis and moved in with mom.
When I got here, I was a little messed up.
I'm wasn't on drugs, but she knew mom can look at the kids.
She knew something was wrong.
She said, you sit down.
And I said, yes, ma'am.
But you are in St.
Louis and you're going to go to church with me.
It was the best move for me in my life.
He has his life back on track now and does three or four shows a month across the globe with his Temptations review.
But what he enjoys most is his role as a husband, as a father and as a St.
Louisan.
It's a great life here.
Great family town.
I love the Cardinals, love the Rams, love the Blues.
And, you know, I'm a St.
Louisan now.
Great story.
I love how mom got him right back on track.
Oh, yeah.
Moms have a way of doing that, don't they? They do.
Oh, man, they are a great group.
That's great
Key:
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Bb
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Cm
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C
Bb
G
Okay, time now for a little musical quiz.
Name the St.
Louisan who is not only a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
but also has the distinction of recording Motown Records' first Grammy award-winning song.
Did you guess Chuck Berry?
Wrong.
Johnny Johnson?
Wrong.
Tina Turner is also wrong.
[Bb] Let Fox News' Glenn Zimmerman give you a little hint in tonight's Fox Files.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Tucked away in a quiet, _ [Bb] nondescript St.
Louis [Db] suburb lives a music legend, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer,
a five-time Grammy award winner, and the lead singer of this iconic song.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Dbm] _ _
[Db] Say hello to St.
Louisan Dennis Edwards.
It was the best thing I ever done was to move back [Eb] to St.
Louis.
[G] Edwards was the lead [C] singer of The Temptation.
[N] Yes, those Temptations.
His gritty, soulful, gospel [F] voice was the sound of the Motown group [C] in the late 60s and 70s.
It's [Fm] his voice that fueled the number one [Ab] hit like I Can't Get [C] Next to You,
[Dm] Runaway Child, Running [C] Wild, [N] and Motown's first ever [Dm] Grammy award-winning single, Cloud Nine. _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Bb] Before he joined, the group was the classic [Eb] five.
David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Otis Williams, [Bb] Melvin Franklin, and Paul [Ab] Williams.
They had a string of hits in the 60s, but success [Em] and drugs were going [Cm] to David Ruffin's head, [Gm] and he was on his way out.
He [C] was just a complete entertainer.
I didn't know about [Bb] his personal life, but he was a complete entertainer.
Well, [N] anyway, _ you know, I'm sitting there, man.
I'm like, Temptations.
So he said, you let me know.
Let me know.
So I went home, you know.
It wasn't about 10 minutes. _
_ So I called him and I said, I said, I said, yes, I would love to try out. _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ [G] _ [C] His _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [G] entrance into the group coincided with a shift in the [C] band's sound.
It was more toward the psychedelic soul sound of the 70s.
It was an exciting time.
[G] I had no idea.
You know, I'm thinking, I'm in Temptations.
[Ab] I'm a superstar.
I'm going to get all the girls and this is going to be so much fun. _
I had to meet at eight o'clock in the morning for rehearsal.
I'm like, what's this?
_ 1968 was his coming out [Ebm] party, the nationally televised TCB [Ab] special with Diana Ross and the Supremes.
I kind of [G] realized why David acted like he did, [C] because I [Bbm] must have did 12 songs [Eb] _ out [Cm] of 15 songs.
If you're not screwed on right, [F] you will have a Temptations in the neck.
[Bbm] So is that when you knew that [Cm] you made it?
We never really thought _ _ of [F] the _ [Eb] magnitude _ [Bb]
of the [Cm] success that we had.
And success they had.
And with that came real world temptation.
You know, the myth was [N] if you got something, you get some weed or some cocaine, you perform better.
Even though there was [G] more music success like the [D] 1984 hit Don't Look Any Further [A] with Saeeda Garrett,
his [N] life was slowly getting out of control.
You know, I would go out and three or four or five days and get high and I could never, I didn't know.
One day I found out, I said, what am I doing?
_ _ So he packed up.
He moved from L.A. to St.
Louis and moved in with mom.
When I got here, I was a little messed up.
I'm _ wasn't on drugs, but she knew mom can look at the kids.
She knew something was wrong.
She said, you sit down.
And I said, yes, ma'am.
But you are in St.
Louis and you're going to go to church with me.
It was the best move for me in my life.
He has his life back on track now and does three or four shows a month across the globe with his Temptations review.
But what he enjoys most is his role as a husband, as a father and as a St.
Louisan.
It's a great life here.
Great family town.
I love the Cardinals, love the Rams, love the Blues.
And, you know, I'm a St.
Louisan now.
_ _ _ _ Great story.
I love how mom got him right back on track.
Oh, yeah.
Moms have a way of doing that, don't they? They do.
Oh, man, they are a great group.
That's great
Name the St.
Louisan who is not only a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
but also has the distinction of recording Motown Records' first Grammy award-winning song.
Did you guess Chuck Berry?
Wrong.
Johnny Johnson?
Wrong.
Tina Turner is also wrong.
[Bb] Let Fox News' Glenn Zimmerman give you a little hint in tonight's Fox Files.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Tucked away in a quiet, _ [Bb] nondescript St.
Louis [Db] suburb lives a music legend, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer,
a five-time Grammy award winner, and the lead singer of this iconic song.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Dbm] _ _
[Db] Say hello to St.
Louisan Dennis Edwards.
It was the best thing I ever done was to move back [Eb] to St.
Louis.
[G] Edwards was the lead [C] singer of The Temptation.
[N] Yes, those Temptations.
His gritty, soulful, gospel [F] voice was the sound of the Motown group [C] in the late 60s and 70s.
It's [Fm] his voice that fueled the number one [Ab] hit like I Can't Get [C] Next to You,
[Dm] Runaway Child, Running [C] Wild, [N] and Motown's first ever [Dm] Grammy award-winning single, Cloud Nine. _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Bb] Before he joined, the group was the classic [Eb] five.
David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Otis Williams, [Bb] Melvin Franklin, and Paul [Ab] Williams.
They had a string of hits in the 60s, but success [Em] and drugs were going [Cm] to David Ruffin's head, [Gm] and he was on his way out.
He [C] was just a complete entertainer.
I didn't know about [Bb] his personal life, but he was a complete entertainer.
Well, [N] anyway, _ you know, I'm sitting there, man.
I'm like, Temptations.
So he said, you let me know.
Let me know.
So I went home, you know.
It wasn't about 10 minutes. _
_ So I called him and I said, I said, I said, yes, I would love to try out. _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ [G] _ [C] His _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [G] entrance into the group coincided with a shift in the [C] band's sound.
It was more toward the psychedelic soul sound of the 70s.
It was an exciting time.
[G] I had no idea.
You know, I'm thinking, I'm in Temptations.
[Ab] I'm a superstar.
I'm going to get all the girls and this is going to be so much fun. _
I had to meet at eight o'clock in the morning for rehearsal.
I'm like, what's this?
_ 1968 was his coming out [Ebm] party, the nationally televised TCB [Ab] special with Diana Ross and the Supremes.
I kind of [G] realized why David acted like he did, [C] because I [Bbm] must have did 12 songs [Eb] _ out [Cm] of 15 songs.
If you're not screwed on right, [F] you will have a Temptations in the neck.
[Bbm] So is that when you knew that [Cm] you made it?
We never really thought _ _ of [F] the _ [Eb] magnitude _ [Bb]
of the [Cm] success that we had.
And success they had.
And with that came real world temptation.
You know, the myth was [N] if you got something, you get some weed or some cocaine, you perform better.
Even though there was [G] more music success like the [D] 1984 hit Don't Look Any Further [A] with Saeeda Garrett,
his [N] life was slowly getting out of control.
You know, I would go out and three or four or five days and get high and I could never, I didn't know.
One day I found out, I said, what am I doing?
_ _ So he packed up.
He moved from L.A. to St.
Louis and moved in with mom.
When I got here, I was a little messed up.
I'm _ wasn't on drugs, but she knew mom can look at the kids.
She knew something was wrong.
She said, you sit down.
And I said, yes, ma'am.
But you are in St.
Louis and you're going to go to church with me.
It was the best move for me in my life.
He has his life back on track now and does three or four shows a month across the globe with his Temptations review.
But what he enjoys most is his role as a husband, as a father and as a St.
Louisan.
It's a great life here.
Great family town.
I love the Cardinals, love the Rams, love the Blues.
And, you know, I'm a St.
Louisan now.
_ _ _ _ Great story.
I love how mom got him right back on track.
Oh, yeah.
Moms have a way of doing that, don't they? They do.
Oh, man, they are a great group.
That's great