Expressway To Your Heart
Soul Survivors

(Kenny Gamble - Leon Huff)


 Intro:  [car horns]

         bass doubled with piano [2X]:

         (F#)
          v   v   v   v
         -----------------
         -----------------
         -----1---22-2-24-
         -2---------------

 Verse 1:

         [chords are implied by bass/piano line except during second verse
          where organ plays chords on 2 beat of each measure]

         F#
         I've been tryin' to get to you  for a long time
         Because constantly  you been on my mind

                v   v   v   v
               -----------------
               -----1---22-2-24-
               -2---------------
               -----------------

                 B
         I was thinkin' 'bout a shortcut I could take

                 F#
         But it seems like  I made a mistake

         (organ alone):

               A#m                    G#m 
         I was wrong, mmm, I took too long
                G#m               A#m
         I got caught in the rush hour
           G#m               A#m
         A fellow started to shower
                  G#m            A#m
         You with love and affection
                        B            C#
         Now you won't look in my direction


 Chorus: [fuzz guitar doubles bass/piano riff from intro]

                   F#
         On the expressway  to your heart
         The expressway  is not the best way

         (electric piano):

                    D#m               D#m/C#
         At five o'clock it's much too crowded
                 D#m/B       D#m/A#
         Much too crowded, so crowded

         (guitar enters, playing D# octaves)

                    D#m     D#m/C#
         No room for me (too crowded)
         D#m/B   D#m/A#
         Oh, too crowded

 [repeat intro riff (w/organ on 2 beat), 2X]

 Verse 2:

         Now there's too many  ahead of me
         They're all the time  gettin' in front of me
         I thought I could find a clear road ahead
         But I found  stoplights instead

         I was wrong, baby, I took too long
         I got caught in the rush hour
         A fellow started to shower
         You with love and affection
         Come on, look in my direction

 [repeat chorus]

 Coda:   (repeat to fade w/car horns):

         D#m         D#m/C#
         Oh, much too crowded
         D#m/B  D#m/A#
         Oh, so crowded          


 -- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

 One of the first national hits (#3 R&B, #4 Pop) for future Philly-soul
 mavens Gamble and Huff; Dave Marsh describes the Soul Survivors as 'what
 the Young Rascals would have sounded like if they had grown up on the
 other end of the New Jersey Turnpike'.  -- AWR

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