THE PARLIAMENTS 
(I WANNA) TESTIFY 
Released in 1967
#3 On the billboard R&B chart
#20 on the Pop Chart


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Friends, inquisitive friends
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Are asking me what's come over me
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A change, there's been a change
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And it's oh so plain to see

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Love just walked in on me
And took me by surprise
Happiness surrounds me,
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You can see it in my eyes
Now it was just a little while ago
My life was incomplete
I was down, so doggone low
I had to look up at my feet

Cm                     Eb
Don't you know, I wanna testify
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What your love has done for me
C                     Eb 
Everybody sing, I just wanna testify
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Oh girl, what your love has done for me

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Hum - mmmm luscious,
Eb               Cm 
Sho been delicious to me
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Hear me now, hum-mmmmmmm
Eb            F          C
Luscious, sho been delicious to me


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Once I was a hollow man
Cm          F            C 
In which a lonely heart did dwell
C            F           Cm 
Then love came sneaking up on me
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Bringing hope to an empty shell
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Now I've heard so many times before
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That you love can be so bad
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But I just want to tell you people
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It's the best love I ever had

C                            Eb
Talkin' 'bout, I just wanna testify
F           Eb          C 
What your love has done for me
C                          Eb
Everybody sing (oh girl) I just wanna testify
F           Eb          Cm
What your love has done for me
 C             C
Hear me now, hummmmmmm
Eb        F       Eb      Cm 
Luscious sho been delicious to me
C                              Eb
Bring it home now, I just wanna testify
F           Eb          C
What you love has done for me
C                            Eb
Everybody sing, I just wanna testify
F            Eb           C
What your love has done for me