Part-time lover by Stevie Wonder
Album: In Square Circle (1985)
Capo 1th fret.
(Original Key: [Bbm])
Intro
[Am] [G] [Fmaj7],
[Em7] [Dm7] [Em7], [Am7], [Dm7] [Em7]
Interlude
[Am] [G]
Da da da da, da da da da,
[Fmaj7] [Em7]
Da da da da da, da da da da.
[Dm7] [Em7] [Am7] [Dm7]
Da da da, da da da da, da da da da da.
Verse 1
[Em7] [Am] [G] [Fmaj7]
Call up, ring once hang up the phone, to let me know made it home;
[Em7] [Dm7] [Em7] [G] [Am]
Don't want nothing to be wrong, with part-time lo-vers.
[Em7] [Am] [G] [Fmaj7]
If she's with me I'll blink the lights, to let you know tonight's the night,
[Em7] [Dm7] [Em7] [G] [Am]
For me and you; my part-time lo-ver.
Chorus
[Gm] [C9] [F] [F/G] [C]
We are, undercover passion on the run.
[Am7] [Dm7] [Em] [F#m7b5] [G] [Am]
Cha-sing love, up against the su -u -u-un.
[Gm] [C9] [F] [F/G] [C]
We are strangers by day, lovers by night.
[Dm6] [Esus]
Knowing it's so wrong, but feeling so right.
Verse 2
[Am] [G] [Fmaj7]
If I'm with friends and we should meet, just pass me by; don't even speak.
[Em7] [Dm7] [Em7] [G] [Am]
Know the word's "dis-creet", with part-time lo-vers.
[Em7] [Am] [G] [Fmaj7]
But if there's some emergency; have a male friend to ask for me,
[Em7] [Dm7] [Em7] [G] [Am]
So then she won't peek it's really you; my part-time lo-ver.
Chorus
[Gm] [C9] [F] [F/G] [C]
We are, undercover passion on the run.
[Am7] [Dm7] [Em] [F#m7b5] [G] [Am]
Cha-sing love, up against the su -u -u-un.
[Gm] [C9] [F] [F/G] [C]
We are strangers by day, lovers by night.
[Dm6] [Esus]
Knowing it's so wrong, but feeling so right.
Interlude
[Am] [G]
Da da da da, da da da da,
[Fmaj7] [Em7]
Da da da da da, da da da da.
[Dm7] [Em7] [Am7] [Dm7]
Da da da, da da da da, da da da da da.
Chorus
[Gm] [C9] [F] [F/G] [C]
We are, undercover passion on the run.
[Am7] [Dm7] [Em] [F#m7b5] [G] [Am]
Cha-sing love, up against the su -u -u-un.
[Gm] [C9] [F] [F/G] [C]
We are strangers by day, lovers by night.
[Dm6] [Esus]
Knowing it's so wrong, but feeling so right.
Verse 3
[Am] [G] [Fmaj7]
I've got some-thing that I must tell; last night some-one rang our doorbell,
[Em7] [Dm7] [Em7] [G] [Am]
And it was not you; my part-time lo-ver.
Verse 4
[Am] [G] [Fmaj7]
And then a man called our exchange, but didn't want to leave his name.
[Em7] [Dm7] [Em7] [G] [Am]
I guess that two can play the game; of part-time lo-vers.
Coda
[Em7] [G] [Am]
You and me; part-time lov-ers.
[Em7] [G] [Am]
But, she and he; part-time lov-ers.
(Fade)
(Chord Diagrams)
[Am] [G] [Fmaj7] [Em7] [Dm7] [Gm] [C9] [F]
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
x02210 320003 x03210 022030 xx0211 355333 x3233x x33211
[F/G] [C] [Am7] [Em] [F#m7b5] [Dm6] [Esus]
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
303211 x32010 x02013 022000 202210 xx0201 022200
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)