Supremes, You Can't Hurry Love (1966)
Key: :[Bb] (w: Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Edward Holland)
INTRO: [Bb]
VERSE 1:
I need
[Bb] love, love to
[Eb] ease my mind
[Bb]
And I need
[Dm] to find find
[Gm]
Someone to
[Eb] call mine, my
[F7] Mama said
CHORUS 1:
You
[Bb] can't hurry love, no you
[Eb] just have to
[Bb] wait
She said
[Dm] love don't come
[Gm] easy
[Eb] It's a game of
[F7] give and take
CHORUS 2:
You
[Bb] can't hurry love, no you'll
[Eb] just have to
[Bb] wait
You gotta
[Dm] trust on a
[Gm] good time
No
[Eb] matter how
[F7] long it takes
BRIDGE 1:
[Dm] How many heartaches must I stand
Before I
[Gm] find the love, to let me live again
Right now the
[Eb] only thing, that keeps me hangin' on
When I
[F5] feel my strength
[F6], oh it's
[Fmaj7] almost gone
I re-
[F]-member Mama said
REPEAT CHORUS 1:
CHORUS 3:
How
[Bb] long must I wait, how much
[Eb] more can I
[Bb] take
Before
[Dm] loneli-
[Gm]-ness
Will
[Eb] cause my heart,
[F7] heart to break
BRIDGE 2:
No,
[Dm] I can't bear, to live my life alone
I grow im-
[Gm]-patient for a love, to call my own
But when I
[Eb] feel that I, I can't go on
These
[F7] precious words
[F6] keep me
[Fmaj7] hanging on
I re-
[F]-member
(mama said)
REPEAT CHORUS 1 & 2:
BREAK: [Bb] (similar to intro)
VERSE 4:
No,
[Bb] love, love, don't come
[Eb] easy
[Bb]
But I
[Dm] keep on
[Gm] waiting, ant-
[Eb]-ici-
[F7]-pating
For that
[Bb] soft voice, to talk to
[Eb] me at
[Bb] night
For some
[Dm] tender
[Gm] arms, to
[Eb] hold me
[F7] tight
I keep
[Bb] waiting, I keep on
[Eb] waiting
[Bb]
But it ain't
[Dm] easy
[Gm], it ain't
[Eb] easy, but
[F7] mama said
REPEAT CHORUS 1:
BREAK: [Bb] (similar to intro)