Wake up Everybody — Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Chords and lyrics for Wake up Everybody by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (key of F).
Verse 1
Composers: John Whitehead, Gene McFadden
and Victor Carstarphen
(Will then sound in the recorded key of Ebm)
Dm7 = xx0211 Bb = x13331 D7 = xx0212
Gm7 = 353333 C = x32010 Gm = 355333
C7sus2 = x35333 C7/Bb = x12010 Fmaj7 = 133210
C13sus2 = x35335 Am = x02210 F7 = 131211
F = 133211
NOTE: There is a long keyboard intro based freely
around an Ebm7, the tab picks up from when the main
tempo comes in.
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(From 0:30)
Intro
[Dm7] [Gm7] [Dm7] [Gm7]
Verse 1
[Dm7]Wake up every - [Gm7]body, no more [Dm7]sleeping in [Gm7]bed,
[Dm7]No more backwards [Gm7]thinking, time for [C7sus2]thinking ahead,
The [Dm7]world has changed so [Gm7]very much,
From [Dm7]what it used to [Gm7]be,
[Dm7]There is so much [Gm7]hatred, [C7sus2]war and poverty,
[C13sus2] Woh - oh, [C7sus2]oh - oh!
Verse 2
[Dm7]Wake up all the [Gm7]teachers, time to [Dm7]teach a new [Gm7]way,
[Dm7]Maybe then they'll [Gm7]listen to [C7sus2]what you have to say,
[Dm7]They're the ones who's [Gm7]coming up,
And the [Dm7]world is in their [Gm7]hands,
[Dm7]When you teach the [Gm7]children,
Teach 'em the [C7sus2]very best you can
Chorus
[Bb] The [C]world won't [C7/Bb]get no [Am]bet - [D7]ter...
[Gm] ...If we [C7sus2]just let it [Fmaj7]be, no - no, [F7]no -no,
[Bb] The [C]world won't [C7/Bb]get no [Am]bet [D7]-ter,
We gotta [Gm7]change it, yeah,
[C7sus2] ...Just you and [F][C7sus2]me[C7sus2][F]
Verse 3
[Dm7]Wake up all the [Gm7]doctors, make the [Dm7]old people [Gm7]well,
[Dm7]They're the ones who [Gm7]suffer,
And who [C7sus2]catch all the hell,
[Dm7]They don't have so [Gm7]very long...
Be - [Dm7]fore their Judgment [Gm7]Day,
[Dm7]Won't you make them [Gm7]happy be - [C7sus2]fore they pass away?
Verse 4
[Dm7]Wake up all the [Gm7]builders, time to [Dm7]build a new [Gm7]land,
[Dm7]I know we can [Gm7]do it, if we [C7sus2]all lend a hand,
The [Dm7]only thing we [Gm7]have to do is [Dm7]put it in our [Gm7]minds--,
[Dm7]Surely things will [Gm7]work out? They [C7sus2]do it every time!
Chorus
[Bb] The [C]world won't [C7/Bb]get no [Am]bet - [D7]ter...
[Gm] ...If we [C7sus2]just let it [Fmaj7]be, no, no, n' [F7]no-no, no-no!
[Bb] The [C]world won't [C7/Bb]get no [Am]bet - [D7]ter,
We gotta [Gm7]change it, yeah,
[C7sus2] ...Just you and [F][C7sus2]me![C7sus2][F]
Coda
Change it, [F]yeah, (Change it, [C7sus2][F]yeah!)[C7sus2]
Just you and [F]me, [C7sus2] [F]change it, yeah,
[C7sus2] Can't do it a - [F]lone,[C7sus2]
(Change it, yeah, ...can't do it a - lone!)
I need some [F]help y'all,[C7sus2] ...can't do it a - [F]lone,
(Can't do it a - [C7sus2]lone!) [F]Yeah, [C7sus2]yeah,
[F]Wake up, [C7sus2] ...every - [F]body,[C7sus2]
[F]Wake up, [C7sus2] ...every - [F]body,[C7sus2]
[F]Get up, [C7sus2] ...get up, ...get [F][C7sus2]up![F]
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