A Charmed Life chords by J-LIVE
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Verse 1
(A minor) Africa (G major) Port- Au- Prince
(C major) Knoxville (G major) Anvan
Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn
- where you coming from?
(A minor) Africa (E minor) Port- Au- (G major) Prince
(C major) Knoxville (G major) Anvan
Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn
- where you coming from?
Africa (E minor) (G major) Port- Au- Prince
Knoxville (E minor) An van
Manhattan South (D major) Bend Albany Brooklyn
- where you coming (G major) from?
Africa (E minor) Port- Au- (G major) Prince
Knoxville Anvan
Manhattan South Bend Albany Brook
(E minor) lyn - where you coming from? (G major)
Africa Port- (D major) Au- Prince Knoxville Anvan
Manhat (G major) tan South Bend (E minor) Al bany
Brooklyn - where you coming from?
(G major) Africa Port- Au- Prince
Knoxville Anvan
Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn
- where you coming (D major) from?
Verse 2
[Fading in] Brooklyn, New (D major)
York to wherever you at
This is autobiographical tak (G major) ing you back
I (E minor) live a charmed (G major) life
We going back in the years
Imagining (E minor) if my whole (G major) world (D major) what
Where (G major) you (D major) coming from
(E minor) Brooklyn, New York (G major) to wherever you at
This is auto (E minor) bio graphical (G major) taking you back
I live a charmed (E minor) life
(G major) We going back in the years
Imagine if (D major) my whole world
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Verse 3
I been around (G major) 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
And rhyme books get (G major) better
with each page
What (C major) before the first bar was (G major) written
A first verse was spittin
Before label exec (E minor) s
was (G major) (E minor) bullshittin
Way back when (G major) Aunty
Verse 5
Leann Aunt Mimi
and Aunt Jackie was (C major) babysitting
Before food (G major) was bitten,
(C major) consumed through a nipple
I'm (G major) talking about when times were simple
Verse 6
To make a long story short it goes
(A minor) Port- au- Prince (E minor) Knoxville (C major) Anvan love
(G major) and the city (E minor) that never sleep (D major) s
From thought (C major) to finish I was (A minor) born
(E minor) just a couple (G major) of weeks late
Stayed home longer (E minor) just to (G major) make
sure everything was on straight
(C major) All (A minor) systems go (E minor) cut (G major) the um (C major) bilical cord
From (G major) old
Verse 7
(E minor) earth to new
earth (D major) Manhat (C major) tan to turf
For what (A minor) its worth (E minor) my mum
(G major) held me (C major) down (G major) one deep
Pops (E minor) was absent (G major) ee but
minds you don't sleep
It took her feelings to raise me
lean taught me how to read
Verse 8
By the (G major) time I went to school (D major)
I was in high speed
Ready (G major) 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
Never (E minor) wanted it was
Verse 9
(G major) always enough (A minor)
But (G major) when it came to education its
like she had one rule
There's no such thing (D major)
as (A minor) too much school
Not to (G major) mention lean taught me (C major) how
to play the piano and then
Every summer (G major) I was
Verse 10
out
in (E minor) south (G major) ben
Grandpops a (E minor) bartender (G major) at a country club
Me and my (E minor) cousins from grand
rap (D major) id was living it up (G major)
Me and granny (E minor) watch (G major) ing
??? football golden blue
Verse 11
She said you can't beat the (G major)
team and them be
's too
Some (E minor) say I (G major) got my sense
of humour from her
And I learned patience from (D major) making
models in the basement (G major)
Brookyn, new york to wherever you at
Verse 12
This is (G major) autobiographical taking you back
With no time for refrains I barely
got enough time to explain
How hip hop captivated my brain
My (C major) mama raised me on soul
an (G major) d beethoven
Verse 13
Sports clubs from private (G major) school
put me up on (C major) soft rock
That was (E minor) cool (G major) but I left Z100 and WGLJ
To find bliss with real (C major) s (G major) and kiss
Video (C major) music rocks showed
my (G major) what time it is
Verse 14
Wrote my (G major) first rhymes as corey
but j- live was sparked
Making (A minor) pause mix (G major) 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
Got my (G major) way from school
started (D major) battling fools (G major)
G nice (E minor) my friendly rival (G major) at the lunch table
He started spark at a dark
with damian and I date
I was down for (C major) a bit but (G major) that
was (C major) just a DJ (G major)
Verse 16
Starting (G major) spinning in the PJs with
(C major) satcho and them
Back and (A minor) forth (E minor) from the (G major) tables
to the pad and the pen
Then I (E minor) had to do a (G major) bit upstate but wait
I wasn't incarcerated but college educated
Verse 17
As (E minor) soon the Albany I (G major) was a (D major) full time
student part (G major) time (E minor) (G major) emcee
At the time raw shack was
the (E minor) place (G major) to be
Living on judge Clark
Started building with gods
Verse 18
16 man squad By the time know (G major)
(E minor) ledge (G major) was
(D major) 120 we was just 5 deep
(G major) I went from (E minor) Mecca to (G major) Albany a student (C major)
(G major) and landed in medina as a teacher
I had this rhyme (C major) (G major) reacher
Verse 19
We recognized (E minor) what what's happen (G major) ing
(C major) I'm making (G major) records and I'm winning
But that's another story (G major) and
it's only the begin (A minor) ning
Brook (E minor) lyn, New York (G major) to wherever
Verse 20
(C major) you (G major) at
This is autobiographical taking you back
Not my (C major) whole en (E minor) tire (C major) life
but (G major) just a slice (C major) of the pie
(G major) A few pieces of the who what (C major) when where's and whys
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(C major) (G major) (C major)
(G major) (E minor) (C major)
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A Charmed Life
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