Can I Get a Witness chords by Marvin Gaye
Verse 1
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The same songwriting team
also composed
Motown's next major hit,
Can I
Get a
Witness, by
Marvin
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Gaye.
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Marvin reminisces about that session.
Holland
Dozier and
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Holland came to me one
day and they said,
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gee
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Marvin, we've got a great thing here.
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And I said, see I need something.
Diane and a couple of the other
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Supremes were in the studio
and they said, well,
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let's use them for backup voices.
So
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Diane thought it was great.
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She loves that kind of thing.
She's
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so groovy and she said yeah I'd
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love to get on that and so
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Diane and the girls
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did background work on that and I went
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and record I said gee man I love it so
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much I swear right in that afternoon and did that
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kind of get a witness
one you love, you're never home
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I love too hard,
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are my friends sometimes safe?
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But I believe, I believe
That a woman could be loved that way
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But it hurts me so inside
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To see her treat me so unkind
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Somebody, some way
Tell her it's unfair
Can I get some with me?
Can I get a witness?
Can I get a witness?
I get a witness?
Can I get a witness?
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Is it right to be treated so bad
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When you've given
everything you had
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Even tossed it in my sleep
Cause I haven't seen my baby all week
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Now you think you agree
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That this ain't the way
love's supposed to be
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Let me hear you, let me hear say, yeah
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Up early in the morning,
I woke up on my mind
Just to find out all night
that I've been crying
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But I believe a woman's
a man's best friend
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So I'm gonna stick by her
Till the very end
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Cause she caused so much misery
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That I forget how love's
Supposed to be somebody
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Cause I'm aware
Tell her it ain't fair
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Can I get a witness?
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Can I get a witness?
Can I get a witness?
I want a witness
Can I get a witness?
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Witness, witness
Can I get a witness?
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With this, with that
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Everybody knows
Especially you, girl
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A love can be sad
But half of a love is quite as bad
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Now all you chicks agree
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That this ain't the way
it's supposed to be
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Let me hear you
Let me hear you say
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I wanna with me
I want a
Whitney
Come on,
Whitney
I want a
Whitney
Just a little bit of my
Outro 1
Oh, yeah
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Can I Get a Witness
Marvin Gaye
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