Biography:
Barbara Lewis (born 9 February 1943 in Salem, Michigan) is a American singer and songwriter whose smooth style influenced rhythm and blues.
Born in Salem (near Ann Arbor), Michigan, Lewis was writing and recording by her teens with producer Ollie McLaughlin. (McLaughlin was a black DJ at Ann Arbor radio station WHRV, now WAAM, who is also credited with discovering Del Shannon.) Her first single release in 1962, the uptempo "My Heart Went Do Dat Da," did not chart nationally but was a local hit in the Detroit area.
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Straighten Up Your Heart:Barbara Lewis.
#43 on BB Hot 100 on ATLANTIC Records
in 1963.
INTRO: G Am7 C..Dm7 G C..D G
#1.
C Dm7 C D
Your cheating heart was playing from the start
C D G C
and our love's becoming the talk of the town.
Am
(Talk of the town.)
C D G C D G C
I can't live up to misery and pain, that I'm about
D G C
to face..my tears would fall like rain.
D G Dm7
(Teardrops are falling on my pillow.)
#2.
Dm7 Em7
Cause I happen to know, one day soon, you'll let
me go.
D A D Am7 G
It's gonna hurt, it's gonna hurt me so in---side.
C Em7 D G C Em7
So, if you don't wanna..(aaaah-oooo)..don't want
Dm7 C D G C D
to see me cry..please don't ever, ever say goodbye.
CHORUS:
Am7 D
Just straighten up your heart..(straighten up,
Am7 Em7
straighten up your heart)..and we can start anew.
D G
And if you do this for me, I'll know your loving
C Dm7
is true..(it's true, it's true.)
INTERLUDE: Am7 C Dm7 G C G C D G C
CHORUS:
Am7 D
So, straighten up your heart..(straighten up,
Am7 Em7
straighten up your heart)..and we can start anew.
D G
And if you do this for me, I'll know your loving
C Dm7
is true..(it's true, it's true.)
OUTRO:
G Em7 F
Baby, I'll know your love is true..(it's true, it's
true)
C Dm7
Darling, I'll know your love is true..(it's true, it's
true)
Em7 Am7 Em7 Dm7
So true (it's true, it's true) I'll know.....(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
#43 on BB Hot 100 on ATLANTIC Records
in 1963.
INTRO: G Am7 C..Dm7 G C..D G
#1.
C Dm7 C D
Your cheating heart was playing from the start
C D G C
and our love's becoming the talk of the town.
Am
(Talk of the town.)
C D G C D G C
I can't live up to misery and pain, that I'm about
D G C
to face..my tears would fall like rain.
D G Dm7
(Teardrops are falling on my pillow.)
#2.
Dm7 Em7
Cause I happen to know, one day soon, you'll let
me go.
D A D Am7 G
It's gonna hurt, it's gonna hurt me so in---side.
C Em7 D G C Em7
So, if you don't wanna..(aaaah-oooo)..don't want
Dm7 C D G C D
to see me cry..please don't ever, ever say goodbye.
CHORUS:
Am7 D
Just straighten up your heart..(straighten up,
Am7 Em7
straighten up your heart)..and we can start anew.
D G
And if you do this for me, I'll know your loving
C Dm7
is true..(it's true, it's true.)
INTERLUDE: Am7 C Dm7 G C G C D G C
CHORUS:
Am7 D
So, straighten up your heart..(straighten up,
Am7 Em7
straighten up your heart)..and we can start anew.
D G
And if you do this for me, I'll know your loving
C Dm7
is true..(it's true, it's true.)
OUTRO:
G Em7 F
Baby, I'll know your love is true..(it's true, it's
true)
C Dm7
Darling, I'll know your love is true..(it's true, it's
true)
Em7 Am7 Em7 Dm7
So true (it's true, it's true) I'll know.....(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
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