I Heard It Through The Grapevine

artist:Marvin Gaye

, writer:Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong

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 {title: I Heard It Through The Grapevine }
{artist: Marvin Gaye }
{key: Dm}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hajBdDM2qdg Capo 1
{c:  }   
[Dm]   [G]   [Dm]   [G]   [Dm]  x5
 
Ooh, I [Dm] bet you're wonderin' [G] how I [Dm] knew,
'Bout your [A7] plans to make me [G7] blue.
With some other [Dm] guy you [G] knew be-[Dm]fore,
Between two of us [A7] guys, you know I loved you [G7] more.
It took me by sur-[Bm]prise, I must [G7] say,
When I [D7] found out yester-[G7]day. Don't you know that:
 
I [D7] heard it through the [G7] grape-[D7]vine;
Not much [G7] longer, would [G7] you be mine.
Oh, I [D7] heard it through the [G7] grape-[D7]vine;
Oh, I'm [G7] just about to lose my [D] mind, [D] honey, [F] ho-[G]ney, [Dm] yeah.
I [Dm] heard it through the grapevine,
Not much longer would you [G] be  [Dm] my baby [G] [Dm] [G]  
 
I know a [Dm] man ain't sup-[G]posed to [Dm] cry,
But these [A7] tears, I can't hold in-[G7]side.
Losing [Dm] you, would end my [G] life, you [Dm] see,
'Cos you [A7] mean that much to [G7] me.
You could have [Bm] told me your-[G7]self,
That you [D7] loved someone [G7] else. 

I [D7] heard it through the [G7] grape-[D7]vine;
Not much [G7] longer, would [G7] you be mine.
Oh, I [D7] heard it through the [G7] grape-[D7]vine;
Oh, I'm [G7] just about to lose my [D] mind, [D] honey, [F] ho-[G]ney, [Dm] yeah.
I [Dm] heard it through the grapevine,
Not much longer would you [G] be  [Dm] my baby [G] [Dm] [G] 
 
[Dm]   [G]   [Dm]   [G]   [Dm]  (x5)
 
[Dm]  People say; believe half of what you see,
Son, and [A7] none of what you [G7] hear.
But I can't [Dm] help, but be confused,
If it's [A7] true, please tell me, [G7] dear.
Do you [Bm] plan to let me [G7] go,
For the other [D7] guy you loved be-[G7]fore?
 
I [D7] heard it through the [G7] grape-[D7]vine;
Not much [G7] longer, would [G7] you be mine.
Oh, I [D7] heard it through the [G7] grape-[D7]vine;
Oh, I'm [G7] just about to lose my [D] mind, [D] honey, [F] ho-[G]ney, [Dm] yeah.
I [Dm] heard it through the grapevine,
Not much longer would you [G] be  [Dm] my baby [G] [Dm] [G]    
{c: Repeat and fade } 
[Dm]  [G7]  [Dm]  [G]   [Dm]

Song Info

Title: I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Artist: Marvin Gaye

Writer: Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong

Song Types: R&B/Soul

Key: Dm

Info: "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for Gladys Knight & the Pips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the Billboard R&B Singles chart and number two on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single to date.

The Miracles were the first to record the song in 1966, but their version wasn't released until August 1968 when it was included on their album Special Occasion.

The Marvin Gaye version was the second to be recorded, in the beginning of 1967, but the third to be released. It was placed on his 1968 album In the Groove, a year and a half later, where it gained the attention of radio disc jockeys, and Motown founder Berry Gordy finally agreed to its release as a single in October 1968, when it went to the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart for seven weeks from December 1968 to January 1969 and overtook the Gladys Knight & the Pips' version of being the biggest hit single on the Motown label (Tamla).

The Gaye recording has since become an acclaimed soul classic. In 1998 the song was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value. In 2004, it was placed 81 on the Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. And on the commemorative fortieth anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100 issue of Billboard magazine in June 2008, Marvin Gaye's "Grapevine" was ranked sixty-fifth.

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I Heard It Through The Grapevine

artist:Marvin Gaye

, writer:Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong

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