...I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE... by Marvin Gaye
--------------------------------------...............

*from 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' (1968)*


*CAPO 1st FRET*

(Original Key: Ebm)


[Intro]

         (x5)


[Verse 1]

            
Ooh, I bet you

              
're wonderin' 

   
how I knew,
            
'Bout your pla

              
ns to make me 

 
blue.
              
With some othe

         
r guy you knew

    
 be-fore,
              
Between two of

            
 us guys, you 

              
know I loved y

    
ou more.


[Bridge 1]

              
It took me by 

            
sur-prise, I m

    
ust say,
            
When I found o

          
ut yester-day.

 Don't you kno

w that;


[Chorus 1]

            
I heard it thr

            
ough the grape

 
-vine;
            
Not much longe

        
r, would you b

e mine.
            
Oh, I heard it

             
 through the g

    
rape-vine;
            
Oh, I'm just a

              
bout to lose m

      
y mind, honey,

        
 honey, yeah.


[Break]

   
(I heard it th

rough the grap

evine,
              
Not much longe

            
r would you be

            
  my baby).


[Verse 2]

            
I know a man a

           
in't sup-posed

    
 to cry,
            
But these tear

              
s, I can't hol

      
d in-side.
            
Losing you, wo

           
uld end my lif

       
e, you see,
            
'Cos you mean 

              
that much to m


e.


[Bridge 2]

              
You could have

            
 told me your-


self,
            
That you loved

         
 someone else.


[Chorus 2]

            
Instead, I hea

              
rd it through 

        
the grape-vine

;
            
Not much longe

         
r would you be

 mine.
            
Oh, I heard it

             
 through the g

    
rape-vine;
            
Oh, I'm just a

             
bout to lose m

       
y mind, honey,

        
 honey, yeah.


[Break]

   
(I heard it th

rough the grap

evine,
              
Not much longe

            
r would you be

            
  my baby).


[Interlude]

         (x5)


[Verse 3]


 People say; b

elieve half of

 what you see,
            
Son, and none 

             
of what you he


ar.
            
But I can't he

lp, but be con

fused,
            
If it's true, 

              
please tell me

   
, dear.


[Bridge 3]

            
Do you plan to

        
 let me go,
              
For the other 

            
guy you loved 

   
be-fore?


[Chorus 3]

            
I heard it thr

            
ough the grape

 
-vine;
            
Not much longe

          
r, would you b

e mine.
            
Oh, I heard it

             
 through the g

    
rape-vine;
            
Oh, I'm just a

             
bout to lose m

       
y mind, honey,

        
 honey, yeah.


[Break]

   
(I heard it th

rough the grap

evine,
              
Not much longe

            
r would you be

            
  my baby).


[Coda] (with Vocal Ad-Libs)

        

(Repeat to Fade)


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