Cloud Nine chords by
The Temptations
The Temptations

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Key: D major
Intro 1
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C

Cm
Cm

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Verse 1
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Cm

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Oh ho, ho ho ho,
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Cm

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ooh, hoo
Cm
Cm

C
C

Childhood part of my life,
it wasn't very pretty
You see, I was born and raised
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Cm

in the slums of the city
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C

It was a one room shack that slept
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G

C
C

Cm
Cm

ten other children besides me
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C

We hardly had enough
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Cm

food or room to sleep
It was hard times
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Needed something to ease my
troubled mind
Listen, my father didn't know
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Cm

the meaning of work
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C

He disrespected mama,
and treated us like dirt
I left home, seekin' a job that
I never did find
Depressed and downhearted
I took to cloud nine
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Cm

C
C

I'm doin' fine, up here on cloud nine
Listen one more time I'm doin' fine,
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Cm

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up here on cloud nine
Folks down there tell me
They say, give yourself a chance son,
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don't let life pass you by
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C

Cm
Cm

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But the world of reality is a rat race
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where only the strongest survive
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It's a dog eat dog world,
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and that ain't no lie
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Listen, it ain't even safe no more
to walk the streets at night
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Cm

C
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I'm doin' fine, on cloud nine
Let me tell you about cloud nine
Verse 2
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Cloud nine, you can be what you
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wanna be
(Cloud nine) you ain't
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got no responsibility
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F
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And every man, every man is free
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(Cloud nine) and you're a million
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Cm
Cm

F
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miles from reality
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I wanna say I love the life I live
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Cm
Cm

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And I'm gonna live the life I
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love up here on cloud nine
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Cm

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G
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I, I, I, I, I, I I'm riding high
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C

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On cloud nine, you're as free as a
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bird in flight
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(Cloud nine) there's no difference between
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F
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C

day and night
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(Cloud nine) it's a world of love and
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Bb

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harmony
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(Cloud nine) you're a million miles
Interlude 1
from reality
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C
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Cm

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Cm
Cm

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Verse 3
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Cloud nine,
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C

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you can be what you wanna be
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C

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Cloud nine you ain't got
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C

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no responsibility
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C

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Cloud nine, and every man in this
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C

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world is free
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(Cloud nine) and you're
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a million miles from reality
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(Cloud nine) you can be what
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you wanna be
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC Cm G F Bb

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