Chords for The Story behind the song "Tender Love"

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Is your chair like higher than mine?
[B] It's because I'm taller than you, Jimmy Jam.
What's up with that?
I'm shorter than you.
I'm getting older, baby.
Who you sound like?
_ _ _ Anyway, when I met this guy, it was back in _ [Fm] 1972.
And what you have to do is you have to put the and in there because it's so long ago.
1972.
[Ebm] _ Jimmy [Fm] and I first met at a program called Upward Bound.
We were both inducted into the program as peer teachers because we were both extremely good at [G] math.
At least I [Fm] was.
I don't know about Jimmy.
When me and Terry first met, our influences in music were so different.
I was, grew up listening to pop [Abm] music my whole life and just got sort of seals and crofts in America.
[Eb] I was excited when the new Chicago album was coming out and he [Db] was like,
No, no, no, you got to [Abm] get excited when the new Earth, When the [Eb] Fire's out, the new Tower of Power [Db] albums.
Jimmy would introduce me [Abm] to new music, [Cm] you know, some [Fm] Chicago or whatever.
[Db] And I'd [Dbm] introduce him to some [Eb] new [Fm] birth or parliament because I love the funk side of things.
[C] I gravitated towards him because [F] I thought that he was just a cool guy to hang around.
There you go.
Ditto.
[Fm] I can't go.
So I asked him, I said, you play keyboards?
He said, no, I'm really a drummer.
I [Ebm] said, well, I got a drummer, man.
I [Fm] need somebody [Eb] to play keys.
[Db] The rest is [Abm] history.
Jimmy Jam is [Cm] now a keyboard player.
[Fm] I joined [Ab] the band Flight [Db] Time and that changed [Dbm] into the time about [Cm] a year later.
[Eb] So when we got together to try [Ab] to write, [Dbm] it would always clash.
[Cm] Because I was coming from this pop [Ab] sense.
He was coming from this funk sense.
[Dbm] And not until we got in [Eb] the time and really started to perform [F] over and over and consistently did it ever work.
Out of that came a lot of what the Flight Time sound initially began to be,
which was a heavy [Ab] funk bottom with pretty pop chords over the top.
I think to this day, I call Terry lyric master.
He is lyric master.
Terry is the one that did the vocals on Tender Love.
And I mean, he gets great vocals out of _ _ artists.
And I think it's something that Terry really [Ebm] does a great job at.
Thank you, Jimmy Jam.
[C] Thank you so much.
In 84, we started our first Flight Time studio in Minneapolis.
We had just _ witnessed purple rain.
The world of music was starting to open up and not be as segmented and segregated.
George Jackson and Doug McHenry called us about doing a song for this movie Crush [A] Group.
[C] A lot of hip hop music and that kind of stuff.
But it was kind of surprising because they wanted a ballad.
Up to that point, we really hadn't done any ballads, [A] so to speak.
But they wanted a love scene in the movie.
They said, yeah, we need a ballad.
So we [C] basically, when we wrote the song, we wrote the song based on this two and a half to three minute film [Eb] clip.
[G] At that time, we went on a 24 hour schedule to finish the song
because we had to have it turned around the next day.
We didn't [Am] know who was going to sing it.
They told us, you know, we'll find somebody to sing it, but just write the song.
Force MD flew to Minneapolis.
The guys were so extremely talented.
[G] And when we started to cut the song, it started coming out so well.
I mean, the vocal probably took, what, two hours?
I mean, it was a really fast session to do.
But no one in their wildest imagination ever thought it was going to be [C] _ accepted the way it was.
One thing that _ drives that song, that makes it so cool, it's so simple. _ _ _
_ Very melodic, _ very musical, _ but so simple.
If I was a wedding singer, I could sing that song.
_ _ It's that [E] simple.
Let's imagine you're a wedding singer.
[C] Sing a few bars.
All right. _
I don't remember.
_ How does the song go?
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_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ Sounds _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
so beautiful, [Eb] don't you agree?
[Fm] Thank you, Terry.
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_ _ _ _ _ So now, _ we're going to do just a little bit, a little rendition of Tender Love,
but just a little bit of it, because we're writers and producers, we don't really sing,
as you will [Fm] soon learn.
Here we go.
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Here _ I lay [Eb] all alone.
Oh, come on, man.
You got the mic. _ _
It looks nice on me.
Oh, come on.
Okay, here we go.
[Ab] _ Here I lay [Eb] all [Fm] [Eb] alone. _ _ _ _
Toss [Ab] and turning.
Longing [Eb] for some [Ab] of [Eb] your _ _ _ tender [Ab] _ love.
I'm waiting [Ebm] for [Fm] the [Eb] right _ _ _ moment [Ab] to come.
So I [Eb] can thank [Ab] you for all [Db] the tender love you've given to me.
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Tender love.
_ _ _ Love [C] so _ tender.
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Pulling [Bbm] me close to you.
Baby, [Gb] I [Fm] _ _ [Ebm] _ surrender.
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_ _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] Thank [Eb] _ _
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_ _ _ [Eb] you, [Fm] _ _ [Db] _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ ladies and [G] gentlemen.
_ _ _ _ Tender Love was really kind of that record that [Ab] everybody said,
oh yeah, Jammin' Lewis, they can [Eb] do ballads too.
It kind of merged R&B pop culture [Ab] with hip hop culture really well.
It's probably the first singing hip hop song [Eb] that I can think of that was a [Ab] huge pop hit,
even before it was an R&B hit.
It [Eb] was our first top ten [Db] _
record on the chart, [F] the first of, I think, 41 now.
_ [Fm] So, I mean, it's, for a lot of reasons, _ [C] _ what, a Mr.
Trivia, right?
Right.
[Bbm] See, he knows.
_ Well, from what I remember about Crush Group, [Fm] the thing that it [Ebm] had [Ab] that the other movies didn't have,
it had a little bit [Eb] more heart.
There was a boy and a girl and musicians and _ [Db] love and _ [Ab] _
turmoil.
It was _ all that life is anyway.
So I think a lot [Bbm] more people related to that.
The saying that people have, [Ab] keeping it [Eb] real, I think [Fm] Crush Group was just [Eb] keeping it real.
And that was a great opportunity for [Ab] us.
Boy, we came along at a great time.
It was just a very, very [Bbm] cool experience. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Ebm] Thank [Fm] you.
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