| Motown single # 1104
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| Pop Chart #4 March 11, 1967
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| Levi Stubbs — lead vocal, Abdul 'Duke'Fakir
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| Lawrence Payton and Renaldo 'Obie'Benson.
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| Instrumentals by: The Motown’s Studio A Hitsville
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| The 'Funk Brothers'1963−1967
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| Robert White and Eddie Willis, Joe Messina — guitars
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| Jack Ashford — percussions, Benny Benjamin — drums
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| James Jamerson — bass, Earl Van Dyke — Keyboards.
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| from the album: Four Tops Anthology 1999 — Motown Records
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| Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
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| Bernadette, people are searching for
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| The kind of love that we possess
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| (Bernadette)
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| Some go on searching their whole life through
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| And never find the love I found in you
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| And when I speak of you
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| I see envy in othermen’s eyes
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| An’I’m well aware of what’s on their mind
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| They pretend to be my friend but all the time
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| (Sweet Bernadette)
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| They long to persuade you from my side
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| (Sweet Bernadette)
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| They’d give the world and all they own
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| For just one moment we have known
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| (Bernadette)
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| Bernadette, they want you because
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| Of pride that it gives
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| (Bernadette)
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| But Bernadette, I want you because
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| I need you to live
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| But while I live only to hold you
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| Some other men they long to control you
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| But how can they control you, Bernadette
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| (Sweet Bernadette)
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| When they can not control themselves, Bernadette?
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| (Sweet Bernadette)
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| From wanting you, needing you
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| But darling, you belong to me!
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| (Bernadette)
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| I’ll tell the world
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| You belong to me
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| I’ll tell the world
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| You’re the soul of me
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| (Bernadette)
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| I’ll tell the world
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| You’re a part of me Oh, yeah!
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| In your arms I find a kind of peace of mind
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| The world is searching for
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| But you, you give me the joy
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| This heart of mine has always been longin’for
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| In you, I have what other men long for
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| All men need someone to worship and adore
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| That’s why I treasure you and place you high above
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| (Sweet Bernadette)
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| For the only joy in life, is to be loved
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| So, whatever you do, Bernadette
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| Keep on loving me (Bernadette)
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| Bernadette, keep on needin’me, Bernadette
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| Bernadette!
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| (Bernadette)
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| You’re the soul-a me More than a dream
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| You’re the plan to me And Bernadette
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| (Bernadette)
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| You mean more to me Than a woman was ever meant to be Bernadette
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| FADES-
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| My darling, Bernadette. |