[Intro] Eb  Ab  Bb9/Eb  Ab

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It's a little bit funnyyyyyy, Lord
Bb/D                 Gm
This feeling insiiiiide
Cm                      Cm7/Bb
I'm not one of those whoooooooo
Cm6/A           Ab7
Can easily hiiiiiide
Eb/Bb                  Eb
I don't have much moneeeey but
B°      Cm
Boy, if I did
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I'd buy a big mansion
Ab                             Bb
Where we both could liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive
Eb              Ab7+
If, if I was a sculpture, Lord honey
Bb/D            Gm
But then again, no
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Or a man who makes pooootions
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In a travelin' show
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I know it's not much, I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do
Eb               Fm7
You gave ME a gift, Lord
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And I'm gon' sing it for you
Bb                    Cm
And you can tell everybooooooooody
Fm              Eb/Ab
That this is your song
Bb/D       Cm
It may be quite, quite simple but that's
Ab7+       Eb/Ab
How it's done
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I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind what I wrote down in woooooooords
                        Fm
Hoooow wonderful life iiiiiiiis
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When you're in the world, woooorld, wooooooooooooooooooorld
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If, if, if I was on a rooftop
Bb                Gm
I'd kick off my shoes
Cm                   Cm7
I'll write a few  veeeeeeeerses
A°                    Ab7
And then I get the bluuuuuuuues
Eb                 Bb
But the sun's been quite, quite kind
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While I wrote this soooong
Eb                   Fm7                 Ab
It's for people like you and people like me

                                  Bb
I wanna, I wanna keep turnin' on on on on
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So excuse me forgetting, but
Bb                Gm
These things I do, Lord
Cm           Cm7
You see, you see I've forgotten
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If they're green or bluuuuuuuue
Eb               Bb                   G/B                Cm
Anyway the things is, anyway the thing is, what I really mean
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Your are the sweetest eyes, you've got the sweetest eyes
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The clearest eyes I've ever seen, I hope you know that
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I hope you, I hope you wrote back and tell everybody
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That this is your song
 Bb/D     Cm
It may be quite, quite simple but
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Now that's how it's done
Cm               Cm7                    A°                               Ab7
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, but I wrote down in words, Looooord, words
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I'm doin' it for how wonderful life iiiiiiiiiiiiiis
                     Bb      Bb                   Bb7
When you're in the world, woooorld, wooooooooooooooooooorld
Eb                     Ab7+
If, if, if I was on a rooftop
Bb                Gm
I'd kick off my shoooes
Cm                  Cm7
I'll write a few  veeeeeeeerses
A°                    Ab7
And then I get the bluuuuuuuues
Eb                  Bb
But the sun's been quite, quite kind
G/B                 Cm
While I wrote this soooong
Eb                   Fm7                 Ab
It's for people like you and people like me I wanna, I wanna keep turnin' on
Bb
So excuse so excuse me
Eb              Ab7+
So excuse me forgetting, but
Bb              Gm
These things I dooooooo
Cm                       Cm7
You see, you see I've forgotten
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If they're green or bluuuuuuuue Baby
Eb                Bb                  G/B                 Cm
Anyway the things is, anyway the thing is, what I really mean
Eb                        Fm7
Your are the sweetest eyes, you've got the sweetest eyes
Ab                           Bb
The sweetest eyes I've ever seeeeeeeen
Eb                                      Ab7+
I hoping you go back, go back and tell everybody
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That Billy Paul's got a song
Cm        Cm7                 A°                       Ab7
I'm, I'm gonna sit upon a, a rooftop and kick off my shoes I'm
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Gonna write it, write it, write it I might come out
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With the Gospel, the Blues, the Jazz, the Rock and Roll I'm gonna, got to
Eb                            Ab7+          Bb                 Gm
Got to write me a simple song for everybody because this is my song
Cm          Cm7                 A°                    Ab7
It may be quite, quite simple but   that's how it's dooooooooone
Eb               Bb                    G/B           Cm                Eb Fm7
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind what I wrote down in words
Ab
You come on back, you try to try again, try again
Eb           Ab7+     Bb                      Gm
Tell eeeeeverybody     that Billy Paul got a song
Cm        Cm7                 A°                    Ab7
It may be quite, quite simple but that's how it's dooooooooone, baby
Eb               Bb                     G/B         Cm                       Eb Fm7
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind what I wrote down in woooooooooords
Ab
Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it