I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Gladys Knight & The Pips

Written by Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong



Released 9/28/67, made the top 40 on 11/04/67 where it spent 14 weeks

Highest charted position was #2,



Ooh, I bet you're wond'rin' how I knew

Baby, baby, baby, 'bout your plans to make me blue [how]

With some other girl you knew before

Between the two of us girls ya know I love you more

It took me by surprise I must say

When I found out yesterday.



Don't ya know that I heard it through the grapevine

Not much longer would you be mine

Oh, don't ya know that I heard it through the grapevine

And I'm just about, just about, just about, to lose my mind

Oh yes, I am, Oh yes, I am, Oh yes, I am.



Baby won't you listen to me.



Boy take a good look at these tears of mine

Baby, baby these tears I can't hold inside

Losin' you would end my life you see

Because you mean that much to me

You could've told me yourself

That you love some body else.



Instead I heard it through the grapevine

Oh-h, not much longer you be mine

Oh, I heard it, yes, I heard it [heard it through the grapevine]

Oh, just about, just about, just about, to lose my mind

Oh yes, I am, Oh yes, I am, Oh yes, I am



Go-o-o-o-o, go

Go, I gotta go

Go, go

You gotta let me go

Go, go, go

I gotta go whoa, whoa, whoa



Say believe half of what you see

Oh, ho, and none of what you hear

Baby, but I just can't help bein' confused

If it's true please baby, won't ya tell me dear

Oh-h-h, do you plan to let me go

For the other girl you loved before?

Don't ya know that I heard through the grapevine

Not much longer would you be mine

Don't ya know that I heard it, yes I heard it



Fade



Transcribed by Jamie Acres jbacres@iquest.net

From: "Jamie's Mail"