The Grass Roots aka simply Grass Roots, were a hugely successful pop rock group that despite charting 29 Top 100 singles from 1967 to 1972 and being on the Billboard charts an astounding 307 straight weeks during that time, never quite had a number 1 single. Their music, largely a product of top production and songwriting talents of the era, remains a staple of 60's & 70's oldies radio stations, and many movie soundtracks.
The initial creation of writing and production team Steve Barri and P.
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guitar doubled w/bass and piano (horns 2nd time), 2X:
v v v v v v v v -----------------|----------------- -----------------|----------------- -----------------|----------------- -3-----3---------|-------1--------- ---------3-----3-|-1-3-4----------- -----------------|-----------------
Chorus 1:
AbCmFm Two divided by love can only be one /CBbmCmDbEb And one is a lonely number AbCmFm Two divided by love can only be sad /CBbmCmDbEb Can only hurt one another
[1, 2: repeat intro riff, 1X; 3: to bridge]
Verse 1:
AbBb/Ab Every night your tears come down Db/AbAbDbAb And I know how you're feeling inside AbBb/Ab Loneliness is no-one's friend Db/AbAb I've been taking the same kind of ride Eb/GFmBbBbm7/Eb And it just shouldn't be if you're still lovin' me BbmCmDbEb Come on, baby
[repeat chorus]
Verse 2:
I'd be lying to myself If I said I was gettin' along All I do is think of you And I know that it's here you belong Come on, girl, make your way, We can start it today Pullin' it back together, now
[repeat chorus]
FmCm Take away the rain from a flower FmCm And the flower just can't grow Db7 Take away your love from me, girl Bbm7/Eb And out of my mind I'll slowly go
[key changes to A]
Bm7/E Out of my mind I'll slowly go
Chorus 2 [in A]:
AC#mF#m Two divided by love can only be sad /C#BmC#mDE Can only be brokenhearted AC#mF#m Two divided and blue should take what they had /C#BmC#mDE And go back to where they started
[repeat chorus 1 (in A); fade]
-- another ace 70's tab from Andrew Rogers
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"Two Divided By Love" (Lambert - Potter - Kupps)
Intro:
[rimshot]
guitar doubled w/bass and piano (horns 2nd time), 2X:
v v v v v v v v -----------------|----------------- -----------------|----------------- -----------------|----------------- -3-----3---------|-------1--------- ---------3-----3-|-1-3-4----------- -----------------|-----------------
Chorus 1:
AbCmFm Two divided by love can only be one /CBbmCmDbEb And one is a lonely number AbCmFm Two divided by love can only be sad /CBbmCmDbEb Can only hurt one another
[1, 2: repeat intro riff, 1X; 3: to bridge]
Verse 1:
AbBb/Ab Every night your tears come down Db/AbAbDbAb And I know how you're feeling inside AbBb/Ab Loneliness is no-one's friend Db/AbAb I've been taking the same kind of ride Eb/GFmBbBbm7/Eb And it just shouldn't be if you're still lovin' me BbmCmDbEb Come on, baby
[repeat chorus]
Verse 2:
I'd be lying to myself If I said I was gettin' along All I do is think of you And I know that it's here you belong Come on, girl, make your way, We can start it today Pullin' it back together, now
[repeat chorus]
FmCm Take away the rain from a flower FmCm And the flower just can't grow Db7 Take away your love from me, girl Bbm7/Eb And out of my mind I'll slowly go
[key changes to A]
Bm7/E Out of my mind I'll slowly go
Chorus 2 [in A]:
AC#mF#m Two divided by love can only be sad /C#BmC#mDE Can only be brokenhearted AC#mF#m Two divided and blue should take what they had /C#BmC#mDE And go back to where they started