A Charmed Life chords by
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Key: A major•

Verse 1

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Africa Port- Au- Prince

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Knoxville Anvan

Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn

- where you coming from?

Am

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Em

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G

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Africa Port- Au- Prince

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Knoxville Anvan

Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn

- where you coming from?

Em

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Africa Port- Au- Prince

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Knoxville An van

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Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn

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- where you coming from?

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Africa Port- Au- Prince

Knoxville Anvan

Manhattan South Bend Albany Brook

Em

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G

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lyn - where you coming from?

D

D

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Africa Port- Au- Prince Knoxville Anvan

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Em

Em

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Manhattan South Bend Al bany

Brooklyn - where you coming from?

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Africa Port- Au- Prince

Knoxville Anvan

Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn

D

D

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- where you coming from?

Verse 2

D

D

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[Fading in] Brooklyn, New

York to wherever you at

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This is autobiographical taking you back

Em

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G

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I live a charmed life

We going back in the years

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D

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Imagining if my whole world what

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D

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Where you coming from

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Em

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Brooklyn, New York to wherever you at

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This is autobio graphical taking you back

Em

Em

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I live a charmed life

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We going back in the years

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Imagine if my whole world

Verse 3

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I been around the sun twenty- five times

And I still find new ways

to recognize shine

It's like light gets better with age

The way a song sounds

better on stage

Verse 4

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G

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And rhyme books get better

with each page

C

C

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What before the first bar was written

A first verse was spittin

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Before label execs

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was bullshittin

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Way back when Aunty

Verse 5

Leann Aunt Mimi

C

C

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and Aunt Jackie was babysitting

G

G

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Before food was bitten,

C

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consumed through a nipple

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I'm talking about when times were simple

Verse 6

To make a long story short it goes

Am

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Em

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C

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Port- au- Prince Knoxville Anvan love

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Em

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D

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and the city that never sleeps

C

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Am

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From thought to finish I was born

Em

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just a couple of weeks late

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G

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Stayed home longer just to make

sure everything was on straight

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C

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Am

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Em

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C

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All systems go cut the umbilical cord

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From old

Verse 7

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earth to new

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earth Manhattan to turf

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Em

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For what its worth my mum

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C

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held me down one deep

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G

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Pops was absentee but

minds you don't sleep

It took her feelings to raise me

lean taught me how to read

Verse 8

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D

D

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By the time I went to school

I was in high speed

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Ready willing and able jackie

taught me how to add with

Dried up black eyed peas

on the kitchen table

And coming home to a mothers

love and good care

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Never wanted it was

Verse 9

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G

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Am

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always enough

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But when it came to education its

like she had one rule

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D

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There's no such thing

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as too much school

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G

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C

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Not to mention lean taught me how

to play the piano and then

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Every summer I was

Verse 10

out

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in south ben

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Grandpops a bartender at a country club

Em

Em

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Me and my cousins from grand

D

D

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G

G

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rapid was living it up

Em

Em

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G

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Me and granny watching

??? football golden blue

Verse 11

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She said you can't beat the

team and them be

's too

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Some say I got my sense

of humour from her

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And I learned patience from making

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models in the basement

Brookyn, new york to wherever you at

Verse 12

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This is autobiographical taking you back

With no time for refrains I barely

got enough time to explain

How hip hop captivated my brain

C

C

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My mama raised me on soul

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and beethoven

Verse 13

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Sports clubs from private school

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put me up on soft rock

Em

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That was cool but I left Z100 and WGLJ

C

C

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To find bliss with real s and kiss

C

C

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Video music rocks showed

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G

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my what time it is

Verse 14

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G

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Wrote my first rhymes as corey

but j- live was sparked

Am

Am

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Making pause mix demos with

my main man mark

Playing ball in the park,

there was other heads too

I was the herb of the crew,

then I learned what to do

Verse 15

G

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Got my way from school

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started battling fools

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G

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G nice my friendly rival at the lunch table

He started spark at a dark

with damian and I date

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C

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I was down for a bit but that

C

C

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was just a DJ

Verse 16

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G

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Starting spinning in the PJs with

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C

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satcho and them

Am

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Back and forth from the tables

to the pad and the pen

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Then I had to do a bit upstate but wait

I wasn't incarcerated but college educated

Verse 17

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D

D

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As soon the Albany I was a full time

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G

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Em

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student part time emcee

At the time raw shack was

Em

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the place to be

Living on judge Clark

Started building with gods

Verse 18

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G

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16 man squad By the time know

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Em

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G

G

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ledge was

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D

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120 we was just 5 deep

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G

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Em

Em

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C

C

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I went from Mecca to Albany a student

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G

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and landed in medina as a teacher

C

C

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I had this rhyme reacher

Verse 19

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Em

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G

G

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We recognized what what's happening

C

C

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G

G

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I'm making records and I'm winning

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G

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But that's another story and

Am

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it's only the beginning

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Brooklyn, New York to wherever

Verse 20

C

C

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you at

This is autobiographical taking you back

C

C

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Em

Em

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Not my whole entire life

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C

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but just a slice of the pie

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C

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A few pieces of the who what when where's and whys

Outro 1

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Chords

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Em
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Bm

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Frequently asked questions

The original key of A Charmed Life by J-LIVE is A major.

The primary chords used in A Charmed Life are Bm, A, D, F#m, E, C#m.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 2 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like Bm, A, D, F#m, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of A Charmed Life is approximately 194 beats per minute.

You can easily change the key of A Charmed Life using our Transpose button located in the toolbar. This will automatically update all chord diagrams on the page to match your new key.

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