C#m
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I ain't stopping fingers keep bopping
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F#m B E
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Swing band rocking from the street to the bar
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C#m
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West Coast's dated music's overrated
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F#m A B
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Here it on the radio in every car
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CHORUS
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E A B D E D B A
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The heat in Harlem The heat in Harlem, yep
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E A B D B
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The heat in Harlem The heat in Harlem
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A B
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and the heat of the soul
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Ring that number hear that timbre
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Watch my senses go right out the door
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Born on the pavement that's where it happens
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Rocking the apartment on the fifteenth floor
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CHORUS
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BRIDGE
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F#m A E
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And when the heat burns your feet, Got to jump to save your skin
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F#m A
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And when you jump the water pump
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B F#m
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The water just rushes away in the burning heat
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A E F#m A B
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Ooh yep, save your skin, Uuh
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We've been screaming, screaming through a jukebox
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Screaming at someone that don't even care
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Born on the pavement that's where it happens
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Feel like fire in the midnight air
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CHORUS TWICE
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SLOW BRIDGE Em A Em A Em (alternaties like this with sometimes A Em taking over)
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A Em A Em Dm Em Dm Em
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Look at the heat wave got everybody, Got everybody under its spell
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Sit back and wonder stand or go under, Or feel the thunder starting to swell
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The heat in Harlem, The heat in Harlem The heat in Harlem punches then rolls
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No big decision no aircondition The heat in Harlem is the heat of the soul
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Mamma is crying Daddy is trying Brother is working for everything you own
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Sister is dreaming, dreaming of Broadway Around the corner a million miles from home
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The heat in Harlem The heat in Harlem The heat in Harlem punches then rolls
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No big decision no aircondition The heat in Harlem is the heat of the soul
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The heat of the soul The heat of the soul The heat of the soul The heat of the soul
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Down in the heatwave, yeah Down down in the heatwave Down in the heatwave, yeah
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Down in the heat, heat, yeah Watch the moon come down in the heat down in Harlem town
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Watch it all come down in the heat down in Harlem town
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The heat of the soul The heat of the soul
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Watch it all come down in the heat down in Harlem town
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Watch the moon come down in the heat down in Harlem town
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Down in the heatwave, yeah Down in the heatwave, yeah
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Take it down in the heat heat yeah The heat of the soul
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The heat of the soul
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Down in the heat heat yeah Down in the heat heat yeah
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The heat of the soul The heat of the soul
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Down in the heat heat yeah Down in the heat heat uh uh
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Down in the heat heat yeah Down in the heat heat yeah
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Down in the heat heat uh uh Down in the heat heat yeah FADES
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The Heat in Harlem
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Graham Parker |