Chords for Stevie Wonder- "I Was Made To Love Her"/Interview 1967 [Reelin' In The Years Archives]

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_ _ _ _ _ At the age of 17, this young man is already a veteran in the music business, having started at the age of 9.
He currently has the number 2 song across the country, I Was Made to Love Her, which he's going to sing in a moment.
He also has a new album out by that title.
Steve Wonder represents an important part of today's music, the best of the Motown sound out of Detroit, as well as the sound of America.
Welcome for the first time on our show, the prophet of soul, Stevie Wonder.
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[Eb] _ [F] _ _ _ Don't you know I'm a snake alive, fill [Bbm] my [Eb] world all around her.
[Db] Hey, [Eb] [F] yeah, hey.
_ She's been my inspiration, [Bbm] showed [Eb] me [Bbm] predictions.
[Db] For the [Eb] love I [F] gave her through the years.
Like the sweet magnolia tree, [Bbm] while I [Eb] blossom [Db] tenderly.
While I [Eb] grew [F] sweeter through the years.
_ _ My baby loves me, [Bbm] my [Eb] baby needs [Db] me.
That's [Eb] why we [F] made it through the years.
_ I was made to love, _ [Bbm] [Eb] worshiping her.
_ _ [Db] Hey, [Eb] [F] hey, hey.
_ I [A] grew [Cm] thicker, I loved her more than.
_ Love my baby, love my baby.
My baby _ [F] _
loves me, [Bbm] my [Eb] baby needs me.
[Db] I know I [Eb] ain't gonna [F] know.
_ _ How much time she was taking.
[Bbm] And her love, [Eb] love my baby.
_ [Db] [Eb] Had to leave her [F] with my city.
_ Well, even if the mountain tumbles, [Bbm] if this [Eb] cold world [Dm] crumbles.
[Db] My heart's [Eb] still [F] standing there.
I was made to love, [Bb] I was made to [Eb] live for her.
[Db] Yeah, [Eb] [F] hey, hey, hey.
Bring it down, my baby, my baby loves me.
_ [Eb] My baby needs me.
_ [Db] Hey, [Eb] [F] hey, hey.
_ Everybody, you know my baby loves me.
[Bbm] You know my [Eb] baby so need me.
I [Db] said, [Eb] yeah, oh, [F] baby, yeah.
Who is this?
Call the center, you [Bbm] know my wife.
[Eb] I [Db] think I'm dead.
[Eb] Yeah.
[F] _ Who is this?
I was made to live.
You don't [Bbm] see the end for me.
I think [Db] I'm dead.
[Eb] Hey, [F] hey, hey.
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[N] I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ need one. _ _ _
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You guys got any?
_ Come on, come on, come on.
Does [G] that feel nice?
Hear all that applause?
It feel good.
Yeah.
Good, good.
You're 17, Steve.
[F] Well.
You got a whole lifetime, [G] huh?
Well.
Hit records?
Flops.
No, no flops.
You haven't had flops, have you?
Oh, yeah, everybody has flops.
Yeah.
Gotta have a few flops.
You were little, Stevie Wonder.
_ That was once upon a time.
Yeah.
This is Stevie Wonder II now.
Uh-oh, wait a minute.
You mean you?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I wish I could sing like that.
You really get a whole thing going.
I'll tell you what to do.
You take this.
What's that?
Play it, come on.
I can't play one of these things.
That's awful big.
Come on.
Why don't you start playing this?
How old were you?
I was four years old.
Yeah.
Where's your home originally?
_ _ Saginaw.
You know that side?
Michigan?
Sure.
No, well.
Saginaw, Michigan.
Do you ever get back there?
_ No, no.
No?
No, no, no.
How do you do with education, being on the road?
Well, I have a private teacher who travels with me, [B] Mr.
Ted Hall.
Yeah?
You mean [N] you come off the stage from all that rocking and you got to go right to school?
Right.
Yeah.
_ What about?
Do my education.
I mean, uh.
No.
_ What, uh, are you graduating this year?
Right, I graduate this January.
A degree from where?
Michigan School for the Blind.
Right.
Then what?
Which is in Lansing, Michigan.
Yeah, I know.
But I live in Detroit, see.
What are you majoring in?
I had to move from Detroit.
I mean, uh.
What are you majoring in?
Uh, loveology.
_ _ _ _ Really?
Is that a big, hot subject now at school? Fantastic.
Yeah?
What are the final exams like?
You _ _ _ should check out the test, right? Yeah.
You're going to go on?
No, I really, I'm going to get serious for a change.
I plan to major in _ composing and arranging.
Where are you going to do that?
Uh, USC.
Good school.
Great.
Come on, guys.
Some bands from the U.S., yeah.
Then will you write all your own stuff, or are you going to go for the more serious?
_ I, uh, actually [B] want to write in more than just one field.
_ _ [G] I, um, I'm very thankful to say, very happy to know, uh, something like that.
That I have, um, I wrote [N] uptight, and I was made to love her.
I only write melodies, though.
I would never mingle with lyrics.
You [Bm] have no lyrics?
Oh, I can't do it at all.
I can't rhyme anything.
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You don't have to rhyme anymore, do you?
It's all a wall of my rhyme.
Steve, thank you very much.
And you're going to come back in a little while on the show and do a second one for us, right?
And solo along with you, right?
Great, yeah.
Fantastic.
We'll be back [A] with Steve one day.
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