When Love Comes Knocking at My Heart

Tammi Terrell, Marvin Gaye

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Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., was an American singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned more than two decades. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., he was the son of a storefront minister of a local Pentecostal church sect and grew up singing gospel in church revivals as a young child. Gaye branched out into secular music as a teenager, joining the doo-wop group The Marquees, after returning from an honorable discharge from the United States Air Force, before the group was hired by Harvey Fuqua to be Harvey & The Moonglows. Following the band's separation in 1960, Gaye began working as a session drummer for the Detroit music label, Anna, before signing with Motown Records in 1961, adding an "e" to his s… more »


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[TT] 
Ooo here I am alone, thinkin' aimlessly
Seein' other girls in love & wishin' it were me
If I could only find the key & make love come my way
I would trade this loneliness for true love any day

[Both] 
When love comes knockin' at my heart
I'm surely gonna let it in
When love comes knockin' at my heart
Happiness will surely begin

[TT] 
Oh darlin', 

[MG] Oh darlin'

[TT] 
Oh darlin', 

[MG] Oh darlin'

[MG] 
Emptiness is in the air & all around me gloom
As I gaze through the window of my lonely room
I hate to get up in the mornin' 'cause I know what lies ahead
Where there should be a cheerful smile, there's loneliness instead

[Both] 
When love comes knockin' at my heart
I'm surely gonna let it in
When love comes knockin' at my heart
Happiness will surely begin

[MG] 
Oh if you've never been in love, darlin'
Then you're just like me, now

[TT] 
Don't you get lonely? What am I to be?
Oh darlin', 

[MG] 
Oh darlin'

[TT] 
Oh darlin', 

[MG] Oh darlin'

[TT] Oh darlin', 

[MG] Oh darlin'

[TT] 
Oh darlin', 

[MG] Oh darlin'

[TT] 
My heart's full of envy for the girl who lives next door
She has so many things that I've never had before

[MG] 
She possesses one thing I've never had a chance to get
That's someone to call her own & there's one thing you can bet

[Both] 
When love comes knockin' at my heart
I'm surely gonna let it in
When love comes knockin' at my heart
Happiness will surely begin

[TT] 
Oh darlin', 

[MG] Oh darlin'

[TT] 
Oh darlin', 

[MG] Oh darlin'

[TT] 
When love comes, I'm gonna let it in
Because I know I'll be happy then
Loneliness will be no more
When love comes, gonna open that door
When love comes, when love comes
Oh darlin', when love comes

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Written by: GLADYS KNIGHT, HARVEY FUQUA, JOHNNY WILLIAM BRISTOL, VERNON BULLOCK

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