Chords for Live - I Wish It Would Rain - The Temptations Reunion

_ _ _ _ I'm gonna go outside and let it be said.
_ But if everyone knows that a man ain't supposed to cry, [Eb] look at me baby.
I have to cry sometimes.
Cause crying [Bb] is a pain.
_ It is a pain.
You know [F] you ain't gonna cry.
[Eb] Words can never explain.
[Bb] Now, what's the word right here?
I'm gonna go outside [Eb] and let it be said.
[Bb] _ But _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Bb] if everyone knows that a man ain't [Eb] _ _ supposed [Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] to cry, look at me baby. _
[Bb] I _ _ [Eb] have to cry sometimes.
Cause crying is a pain. _
[Bb] It is a pain.
You know you ain't [Eb] gonna cry. _ _
[Bb] Words can never explain.
_ [Eb] Rain, rain, _ [Bbm]
rain, _ rain, rain, rain, rain, [Ab] rain.
Oh, [Bbm] oh, oh, oh.
[Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ Get it [Eb] down in the ground, girl.
Now, [Ebm] _ so bad I wanna go [Bb] outside. _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] We've been living together so long, baby.
_ _ [Gb] _ _ [Eb] I've got a lot to do, I [Ab] will.
[Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] [Db] Oh, Lord. _
_ But I need to go outside sometimes. _ _
_ [Bb] _ So [Eb] many other things I could be [Bb] doing right now.
[Gb] _ _ _ [Eb] But I'm here with you this evening. _
[Gb] _ _ _ _ [Dbm] I don't wanna take you to church, but it is [Gb] Sunday, you know.
_ _ I said that the last year, but today is Sunday.
[Bb] _ _ _ [Bbm] I just wanna talk to you, fella.
I wonder if you ever had a [Bb] problem.
_ [Db] That you just could not [Eb] solve.
[Ab] And you need a little help to do it, [Eb] yeah.
_ [B] _ _
[Bb] _ Thought you had [Db] friends you could count [Gb] on. _
[Ab] _ _ [Db] _ But they ain't there anymore, baby. _
[Gb] _ _ [Db] I wonder if you know what I'm talking about.
If you don't say [Bb] yeah, _ _ [Ebm] that's enough, baby.
[Bb] _
I [Gb] can feel you all [B] the way to the moon.
[C] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ But you see, [Gb] if I ever get a problem,
[Bb] I have [Ebm] friends that I can go and talk to.
[Db] _
And see, whenever you got a [F] problem, that's when all of them,
you know, sometimes you [Bbm] try.
_ [Db] So hard.
[Bbm] _ _
[B] You ever meet somebody [Eb] sometimes and you say,
_ _ how you doing?
[Db] And they say, I'm not doing too fine.
You always know that they will [Ab] get you away.
But if you got a [Eb] problem,
_ _ you need a mirror,
you need a friend sometimes.
[Db] _ _ _ _
I'm lucky to have [Ebm] six long [Gb] friends I can go and talk to [Ab] sometimes.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Ab]
I had a problem not too long ago.
_ _ But I could not solve [Eb] by myself.
_ _ [Db] Got in my car, got [Eb] the car and I drove around town.
_ But [Db] I didn't get married for long.
You know why I ended up [F] in the Melvin, oh!
Brother [Bb] Melvin, Lord have mercy.
Help me to see you cry.
Oh Lord, [Db] Brother Melvin, Melvin.
[Ab] How do you do?
[Abm] _ _ [B] _ _ _
[Eb] Listen here.
_ [G] I am your [Gb] friend.
[Ab] You know, just [F] let it [Bbm] rain.
_ [Dbm] _
_ _ [Gb] _ _ [Bb] Brother [Eb] Paulette!
_ Always been by [C] my [Ab] side. _ _
[Bb] _ So I told my mother,
[Bbm] _ _ _ [Db]
don't tell [B] your brother now.
_ [Bbm] [F] Yeah, baby.
Well, I'm always at [Bbm] your side, baby. _
[F] Whenever, ever, [Gb] ever you need.
[Eb] Yeah, baby.
_ [Gb] _ Because of this,
[Bb] _
that's my friend. Yeah. _ _ _ _
[Db] Listen to me.
_ [B] _ [Eb] See.
_ [Ab] I keep driving [Db] around town.
[Bbm] And I [Eb] cannot get myself together [Db] sometimes.
Brother Daniel said, David,
you [Ab] don't need nothing but a little [Eb] bit, a little bit, a little bit of
[Bbm] a rain, yeah!
[F] Yeah, baby.
[Eb] Let it rain.
_ _ [Dbm] _ _ _ _
[Db] [Ab] Help me to see the world [Gb] go on.
[Eb] _ _ _
Brother EK!
[Ab] _ _ That's the day
[Bb] _
[C] that I need you
[Eb] when I'm at the center.
[Bb]
And I told him, Brother [Bbm] EK,
[Ebm] down in Bama [Bb] town,
he said, David,
you've been messing [Gb] around too long.
I gotta tell [C] you what's on my mind.
I was [Ab] shouting on you.
And he said, [F] David, let me talk to you for a [Ebm] minute.
_ [Db] Uh-huh. [Bb] Uh [Eb]-huh.
_ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ Just [F] let it rain, [Eb] David.
_ _ I told [Gm] you all I had plans after going to Joplin.
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] Come on, get up out here. _
Clowns.
[Eb] _ _ We just want to have fun this [Bb] evening.
_ Rain, rain.
I wish [Bbm] it would rain sometime, [Bb] baby.
[Eb] Oh, yeah.
[Db] I wish it would rain,
just to [Bb] hide the dark clouds
over my [Fm] head.
[Ab] _ Dr.
Chakras!
Down [Abm] to my [Eb] knees, yeah.
[Bbm] But I wish it would rain
because it gives my [Gm] heart a little bit of [Bb] joy.
Let it rain. _
[Eb] Let it rain.
I [Bb] want to say, David,
[Eb] let it rain.
_ [Bb] Let it rain.
[Eb] Let it rain.
Let it rain.
_ Let it [Bb] _ _ _
rain.
_ _ [Bb] Oh, how [C] I wish it [Eb] would rain.
_ Oh, [Bb] how I wish it [Eb] would rain.
Let it [Bb] rain.
Let it rain.
Let it rain.
_ Yeah. _ _ _
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