Barbara:The Temptations.
#29 on BB Hot 100 on GOLD DISC Records
in 1960.
***(NOT the Motown Temtations.)***
INTRO:
D Bm G A G Gbm D
Barbara...Barbara...Barbara, my love.
#1.
D Bm G
If Barbara were an angel, I pray she'd watch
A
over me..(whoa, whoa, whoa.)
G D Bm G A
If Barbara were a queen, her servant I would be.
(whoa, whoa, whoa.)
D Bm G
If Barbara would be mine and wear my high school
A
ring..(whoa.)
D Bm G
Then I'd climb the highest mountain, do just
A D D Bm
anything..(Di-dit-dit-dit..di-dit-dit-dit..
G A
di-dit-dit-dit..dit.)
#2.
D Bm G
If Barbara were the winter chill I'd stand out
A
in the cold..(whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.)
D Bm G A
If Barbara were a tree, her branches I would hold.
(whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.)
D Bm G A
If Barbara would love me and say that she'd be mine.
(Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.)
D Bm G A D
I'd swim the deepest ocean, stop the hands of time.
BRIDGE:
G
Barbara, please say (that you're the one in love
with me.)
D
Don't let me lead (this life, this life of misery.)
(whoa, whoa, whoa.)
G Gm7 G
Let me kiss your tender lips and know your secret
charms.
A
And let me know what real love is and hold you in
F A
my armmms.
#3.
D Bm G A
And if this love I pray for, should it all come true.
(whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.)
D Bm G A
Then with all my heart, dear, I'd love no one but you.
(whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.)
D Bm G A
I'll hold you in my arms, for now and ever more..(whoa.)
D Bm G Gbm A D
And we will walk together through love's sac-red door.
OUTRO:
D Bm G A
(Barbara..Barbara..Barbara, my love.
D Bm G A
(Barbara..Barbara..Barbara, my love.
D Bm
(Barbara..Barbara..)..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.