My Guy | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
||: Bb bass line :|| Cm7 Dm7 |
Verse 1
| Bb Bb6 | Bb Bb6 | Bb Bb6 | Bb Bb6 |
Nothing you could say could tear me away from my guy.
| Bb Bb6 | Bb Bb6 | Bb Bb6 | Bb Bb6 | D7 D D7 | D7 |
Nothing you could do ’cause I’m stuck like glue to my guy.
Bridge 1
| Cm7 F7 | Cm7 F |
I’m sticking to my guy like a stamp to a letter,
| Cm7 F7 | Cm7 N.C |
like birds of a feather, we stick together.
Turnaround 1
| Bb G | C7 F | Bb Bb6 Bb | Cm7 Dm7 |
I’m tellin’ you from the start I can’t be torn apart from my guy.
Verse 2
| Bb Bb6 | Bb Bb6 | Bb Bb6 | Bb Bb6 |
Nothing you could do could make me untrue to my guy (my guy).
| Bb Bb6 | Bb Bb6 | Bb Bb6 | Bb Bb6 | D7 D D7 | D7 |
Nothing you could buy could make me tell a lie to my guy (my guy, my guy, my guy).
Bridge 2
| Cm7 F7 | Cm7 F |
I gave my guy my word of honor,
| Cm7 F7 | Cm7 N.C |
to be faithful and I’m gonna,
Turnaround 2
| Bb G | C7 F | Bb Bb6 Bb | Cm7 Dm7 |
you best be believing I won’t be deceiving my guy.
Bridge 3
| Cm7 F7 | Cm7 F7 |
As a matter of opinion, I think he’s tops,
| Cm7 F7 | Bb Bb6 Bb |
my opinion is he’s the cream of the crop.
Middle 8
| Gm7 Dm | Gm7 Dm | C7 | F |
As a matter of taste to be exact, he’s my ideal as a matter of fact.
Verse 3
| Bb Bb6 | Bbmaj7 Bb6 | Bb Bb6 | Bbmaj7 Bb6 |
No muscle-bound man could take my hand from my guy (my guy).
| Bb Bb6 | Bbmaj7 Bb6 | D7 D | D7 D D6 |
No handsome face could ever take the place of my guy (my guy, my guy, my guy).
Bridge 4
| Cm7 F7 | Cm7 F |
He may not be a movie star,
| Cm7 F7 | Cm7 N.C |
but when it comes to being happy, we are.
Turnaround 3
| Bb G | C7 F | Bb Bb6 Bb | Cm7 Dm7 |
There’s not a man today who could take me away from my guy.
Breakdown
||: Bb bass line :|| Cm7 Dm7 |
Verse 4
| Bb Bb6 | Bb Bb6 | Bb Bb6 | Bb Bb6 |
No muscle-bound man (muscle-bound man) could take my hand from my guy (my guy).
| Bb Bb6 | Bbmaj7 Bb6 | D7 D | D7 |
No handsome face (handsome face) could ever take the place of my guy (my guy, my guy, my guy).
Bridge 5
| Cm7 F7 | Cm7 F |
He may not be a movie star,
| Cm7 F7 | Cm7 N.C |
but when it comes to being happy, we are.
Turnaround 4
| Bb G | C7 F | Bb Bb6 Bb | Cm7 Dm7 |
There’s not a man today who could take me away from my guy. What you say?
Outro
||: Bb G | C7 F | Bb Bb6 Bb | Cm7 Dm7 :||
There’s not a man today who could take me away from my guy. Tell me more!
There’s not a man today who could take me away from my guy. What’s that?
There’s not a man today who could take me away from my guy.
My Guy Guitar Lesson | Course Preview
My Guy is a smash hit by Motown’s first female superstar Mary Wells.
Written by Smokey Robinson, it’s a great example of the early, sweeter, and more innocent sound of Motown.
Following a full performance of the tune in the video above, there’s a preview of a lesson from the course, which discusses how to play the verse chords in one area of the neck.
You must go through all areas like this in order to become free and able to improvise your rhythm guitar part, this is what we do in the course.
We also apply the same methodology for the bridge and chorus, step-by-step working our way to being able to play My Guy’s chords anywhere on the fretboard.
My Guy’s chords, progressions, and TAB
This is the first lesson from the course, here we practice the verse first part of the verse, which moves around a Bb chord, we leave the D7 for now.
The first four examples build up to playing the broken triplet. Ensure you can play all of them before you tackle the last two examples.
When you can play all six variations in isolation, aim to move between them in an improvised way.
My Guy’s 8 guitar lessons in the course
There are some jazzy-sounding chords to discover when we play My Guy, more so than your average Motown tune.
Along these chords, you can fit licks in. A great way to work out how to do this is to actually transcribe the licks from the original recording, then develop them
During the 8 steps, you’ll get many variations on how you can play each section, ultimately making it possible for you to improvise your guitar part when you play it with the band in the final step.
In total, there are 8 step-by-step lessons for My Guy available. Here are links to each lesson in the course (members only):
- Step 1 – Bars & Beats
- Step 2 – Verse
- Step 3 – Bridge
- Step 4 – Turnaround
- Step 5 – Verse, bridge, and turnaround
- Step 6 – M8 & Instrumental
- Step 7 – The complete song with TAB
- Step 8 – Live band backing track
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My Guy chords | Related pages
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Mary Wells
Mary Wells was a female superstar for early Motown and an important part of the label’s success. Smokey Robinson and Motown’s main songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland all wrote for her.
Things started to go sour when Berry Gordy started prioritizing other singers.
Mary Wells on the web
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You can learn how to play these Motown & Soul tunes, and in doing so, gain yourself a repertoire so you can jam with, or even join a working band.
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