Pre>   C#m   I ain't stopping fingers keep bopping   F#m b e   Swing band rocking from the street to the bar   C#m   West coast's dated music's overrated   F#m a b   Here it on the radio in every car      Chorus   E a b d e d b a   The heat in harlem the heat in harlem, yep   E a b d b   The heat in harlem the heat in harlem   A b   And the heat of the soul         Ring that number hear that timbre   Watch my senses go right out the door   Born on the pavement that's where it happens   Rocking the apartment on the fifteenth floor      Chorus      Bridge   F#m a e   And when the heat burns your feet, got to jump to save your skin   F#m a   And when you jump the water pump   B f#m   The water just rushes away in the burning heat   A e f#m a b   Ooh yep, save your skin, uuh      We've been screaming, screaming through a jukebox   Screaming at someone that don't even care   Born on the pavement that's where it happens   Feel like fire in the midnight air      Chorus twice      Slow bridge em a em a em (alternaties like this with sometimes a em taking over)   A em a em dm em dm em   Look at the heat wave got everybody, got everybody under it's spell   Sit back and wonder stand or go under, or feel the thunder starting to swell   The heat in harlem, the heat in harlem the heat in harlem punches then rolls   No big decision no aircondition the heat in harlem is the heat of the soul   Mamma is crying daddy is trying brother is working for everything you own   Sister is dreaming, dreaming of broadway around the corner a million miles from home      The heat in harlem the heat in harlem the heat in harlem punches then rolls   No big decision no aircondition the heat in harlem is the heat of the soul      The heat of the soul the heat of the soul the heat of the soul the heat of the soul   Down in the heatwave, yeah down down in the heatwave down in the heatwave, yeah   Down in the heat, heat, yeah watch the moon come down in the heat down in harlem town   Watch it all come down in the heat down in harlem town   The heat of the soul the heat of the soul   Watch it all come down in the heat down in harlem town   Watch the moon come down in the heat down in harlem town   Down in the heatwave, yeah down in the heatwave, yeah   Take it down in the heat heat yeah the heat of the soul   The heat of the soul      Down in the heat heat yeah down in the heat heat yeah   The heat of the soul the heat of the soul   Down in the heat heat yeah down in the heat heat uh uh   Down in the heat heat yeah down in the heat heat yeah   Down in the heat heat uh uh down in the heat heat yeah fades   /pre>