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Song title:      Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
Original Album:	 Sky's The Limit (The Temptations)

Words and Music by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong
Copyright © 1971 Motown Records
Published by Universal Music Publishing

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)



INTRO:
Chords:
C   x32010 or x35553
F   x33211 or 133211


[play: 4/4| C | F |]  [x2]


| C   | F   | C   F
  Ooo   ooo   ooo




VERSE1:
Chords:
C   x32010 or x35553
F   x33211 or 133211


    | C                      | F                      | C  | F
Each  day through my window I  watch her as she passes  by.

 | C                     | F           | C    | F
I  say to myself, "You're  such a lucky  guy."

| C                  | F                        | C    | F
  To have a girl like  her is truly a dream come  true.

      | C                       | F                    | C   | F
Out of  all of the fellas in the  world, she belongs to  you.




CHORUS1:
Chords:
C   x32010 or x35553
F   x33211 or 133211


          | C                   | F | C                    | F
But it was  just my imagination,      running away with me.

      | C               | F               | C           | F
It was  just my imagina - tion, running a - way with me.


Ooh-hoo-hoo-hooh




VERSE2:
Chords:
C   x32010 or x35553
F   x33211 or 133211


| C            | F                        | C       | F
  Soon we'll be  married and raise a fami - ly. (oh,  yeah)

    | C                           | F
In a  cozy, little home out in the  country

                        | C     | F
with two children, maybe  three.

           | C | F                 | C   | F
I tell you,  I     can visualize it  all.

    | C                           | F          | C     | F
This  couldn't be a dream, for too  real it all  seems.

 

CHORUS2:
Chords:
C   x32010 or x35553
F   x33211 or 133211


          | C                  | F           | C                    | F
But it was  just my imagination (once again),  running away with me.    (telling me)

      | C               | F    | C                    | F
It was  just my imagina - tion,  running away with me.



VERSE3:
Chords:
C   x32010 or x35553
F   x33211 or 133211
G   320003 or 355433

| C                                          | F  
  Every night on my knees I pray, "Dear Lord,  hear my plea.

| C                     | F                              | G
  Don't ever let another  take her love from me or I will  surely die.."

                | C                        | F
Ooh, her love is  heavenly when her arms en- fold me,

               | C       | F           | C     | F                 | C
I hear a tender  rhapsody    but in re - ality,    she doesn't even know me



CHORUS3:
Chords:
C   x32010 or x35553
F   x33211 or 133211


      | C                  | F           | C                   | F
It was  just my imagination (once again),  running away with me.   oh (telling me)

      | C               | F               | C          | F
It was  just my imagina - tion, running a - way with me.
 
(I never met her, but I can't forget her.)

      | C                   | F         | C          | F
It was  just my imagination,    running a-way with me    Oooo

      | C               | F
It was  just my imagina - tion...