Just To Be Close To You Chords by Commodores

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_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Just to [C] be _ [G] close to you, _ [Am] girl.
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[C] Just for a moment, [G] well, _ _ [F] just for an hour. _ _ _
[G] Just to [C] be _ [G] close to you, _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] girl.
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Oh, baby.
_ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ Ah!
_ [Am] _ _ _
[G] You know, I've been through so many [F] changes in my lifestyle.
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [F]
Oh, I've been up real high where _ [G] I thought I [C] didn't need anybody.
_ [G] _ _ Oh, and [Am]
then again, [C] I've been down [G] real low where [C] there was no [F] one in my life that needed [Em] me. _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G]
[C] Oh, and I found that _ _ [G] material things I [Am] _ thought had so [G] much value. _ _
Oh, [F] girl, _ _ [Em] didn't really have any value at all.
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] That [C] I was a lonely _ [G] man. _
_ [Am] _ A man [G] with no direction, with no [F] purpose.
_ [Em] With no one to love and no one to love [F] me for me. _ _
[G] Oh, [C] girl, then you _ came into [G] my life.
You made [C] my jagged edges smooth.
You [G] made my _ _ direction [Am] so clear and new.
[G] Oh, woman, you became my [F] purpose, my reason for living, girl.
You [G] see, [C] you're my heart, you're my soul, [G] you're my stone [Am] _ _
inspiration, [G] _ baby.
Oh, [F] that's why I'm standing here [Em] singing and opening my arms [Dm] to you.
I [F] want to say, [G] child, why [Am] don't you [C] _
[Em] take my [F] hand?
_ _ [Em] Oh, we'll live in [F] love forever, [C] yeah. _
Take [F] my hand.
Oh, _ [Em]
we'll be alone, [F] you and [G] me, [Am] yeah.
[Em]
Take [F] my hand. _ _
[G] Girl, we'll live [F] our lives together, yeah, together.
_ _ Together, yeah.
Oh, oh, together.
_ [G] Together.
Just [C] to be _ [G] close to you, [Am] _
girl.
_ [G] _ _ _ Just [F] for the moment, [Em] baby.
Well. _ _
[F] Just for an hour.
_ _ _ [G] [C] Just to be _ _ [G] close to you, [Am] _ _ _ [G] girl. _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ [Em] _ Ooh, ooh, [F] ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
[C] _ _ _ [G] I've been out [Am] there searching so [F] very _ long, [C] baby.
_ _ _ [G] _ _
Searching to [C] _ [G] find [F] somebody just like [C] you.
_ _ _ [G] And for some folks, [Am] _ [G] it takes a [F] lifetime _ to [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ find in [C] this [G] world a [F] dream come [Am] true.
Why don't [Em] you?
_ _ [F] _ _
Oh, _ [Em] _ we'll [Dm] live in love forever, [C] yeah.
[Em] _ _ [F] _ _ _
Girl, [Em] we'll be alone, [F] you and _
[C] me.
[Em] _ _ _ [F] Take my hand.
_ _ [Em] We'll spend [F] our lives together, _ yeah.
_ _ Together.
Oh, oh, together.
_ _ [G] Together.
Oh, just to [C] be _ [G] close to you, [Am] _ girl.
[G] Girl. _ _ _
[F] Just for the moment.
Oh, just [Em] for the moment.
Ah.
[Dm] Just for the hour.
_ _ _ [G]
[C] Just to be _ _ [G] close to you, [Am] _ girl.
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] To make love. _
_ [Am] _ To be [G] [F] loved by you, baby.
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] To have your [Am] warm body [G] close to [Am] mine. _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] To whisper words [Am] that make you [G] feel [F] like a woman.
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] Girl, I know our [Am] love [G] will stand the [F] test of time.
[G] [C] Just to be _ [G] close to you, [Am] _ _ girl.
[G] _ _ _
For [F] the moment, baby.
[Em] For the moment, baby.
For [Dm] the moment, baby.
For the sugar, [G] sugar.
[C] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, [G] yeah. _
_ [Am] Ooh, ooh, ooh. [G] Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, [F] yeah.
_ [Em] Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
[F] _ _ _ Yeah, [G] yeah, _ [C] yeah.
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] Yes, yes.
Hey, girl, I want to stay.
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ My _ [Am] _ arms are still [G] burning.
Girl you got me yearning for you.
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