Just My Imagination

The Temptations

Oldies · Romance

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INTRO (first line is just base)
[C]	[|]	[C]	[|]	[C]	[|]	[C]		[|]
[C]	[|]	[Dm7]	[|]	[C]	[|]	[Dm7]	
 
VERSE 1
Each [|][C]day through my window I [|]
[Dm7]watch her as she passes [|][C]by. [|][Dm7]
I [|][C]say to myself, "You're [|][Dm7]such a lucky[|]
[C]Guy." [|][Dm7][|][C]To have a girl like [|][Dm7]her
Is truly [|][C]a dream come true. [|][Dm7]
Out of [|][C]all of the fellas in the [|][Dm7]world
She be[|][C]longs to you...[|][Dm7]
 
CHORUS
But it was [|][C]just my imagination [|][Dm7] [|]
[C]Running away with me. [|][Dm7]..It was [|]
[C]Just my imaginat[|][Dm7]ion running [|]
[C]Away with me.. [|][Dm7] [|] 

VERSE 2
[C]..Soon we'll be [|][Dm7]married.. and raise a [|]
[C]Family. -oh [|][Dm7]yeah-In a [|][C]cozy, little 
Home out [|][Dm7]in the country with two [|]
[C]Children, maybe [|][Dm7]three. I tell you, [|]
[C]I [|][Dm7]..can visual[|][C]ize it all. [|][Dm7]..This [|]
[C]Couldn't be a dream for too [|]
[Dm7]Real it all [|][C]seems. [|][Dm7]

CHORUS
But it was [|][C]just my imagination [|][Dm7] [|]
[C]Running away with me. [|][Dm7]..It was [|]
[C]Just my imaginat[|][Dm7]ion running [|]
[C]Away with me.. [|][Dm7][|][pause4][|]
 
VERSE 3
[C]Every night, on my [|][C]knees I pray, [|]
[C]"Dear Lord, [|][Dm7]hear my plea... [|] 
[C]Don't ever let another [|][Dm7]take her 
Love from me or I will [|][G7]surely die.." [|]
[G7]Ooh, her love is [|][C]heavenly; [|]
[C]When her arms enfold me, [|]
[C]I hear a tender rhapsod[|][Dm7]y...
But in [|][C]reality..she [|][Dm7]doesn't even know me [|] 

CHORUS
[C]Just my imagination [|][Dm7][|]
[C]Running away with me. [|][Dm7]
It was [|][C]just my imaginat[|][Dm7]ion
Running [|][C]away with me.. [|][Dm7]

It was [|][C]just my imagination [|][Dm7][|]
[C]Running away with me.. [|][Dm7]. Oooo
It was [|][C]just my imaginat[|][Dm7]ion... [|][C][\]