The Boy From Crosstown chords by Gladys Knight And The Pips

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Verse 1
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 (C major) Way on the other side of town
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lives  (F major) a  (C major) boy that's been misunderstood
Just because he lives crosstown
and I live downtown
My family says that he's no good
People listen now,
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 (F major) he  (C major) may be a boy from Crosstown
But he's sure not the boy that I love
It's not where you come from
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that makes what  (F major) you are
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It's what's inside that counts  (G major) by far
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 (C major) I'm talking about the boy
from Crosstown
Don't you know that he's sure
not the boy that I love
People downtown say he's
troubled now
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 (F major) because on  (C major) his face he wears a frown.
He only acts the way he does
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 (F major) because he's  (C major) unwanted
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and he's unloved.  (F major) 
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He  (C major) may be a  (F major) boy from Crosstown,  (C major) 
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 (F major) but he's  (C major) sure not the  (F major) boy that I love.  (C major) 
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And all the love that  (F major) he's  (C major) never known,  (F major) 
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I tend to leave it to  (G major) him alone.
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I'm  (C major) talking about the boy
from Crosstown.
Don't you know that he's showing off
the boy that I love?
Don't you know that I'm talking
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about the  (F major) boy from Crosstown?  (C major) 
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He's showing off the  (F major) boy that I love.
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I love him, I love him,  (C major) oh, yes, I do
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 (F major) Yes, I  (C major) do
Oh, yes, I do
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I  (F major) love my  (C major) baby  (D major)  (C major) 
Oh, my family say
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they want what's best for me  (F major) 
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 (C major) A  nice young man from society
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But  (F major) I  (C major) don't want no Dr. Sun, you see
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I  (F major)  (C major) want the boy that
means the most to me
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I want the boy who  (F major) call (C major) s town
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Yes, I  (F major) do,
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cause  (C major) he's the son of
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 (F major) the boy that I love  (C major)  (F major) 
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Oth (C major) ers see him  (F major) as the  (C major) reckless kind
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 (F major) But in my eyes, he's just a  (G major) dream divine
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And  (C major) I'm talkin' bout the
boy from Crosstown
Don't you know that he's showin' off
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the  (F major) boy that I love?  (C major) 
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Don't want nobody  (F major) 
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 (C major) Oh, he's showin' off the boy that  (F major) I  love
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 (C major) Don't want nobody else