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After These Messages chords by
Bootsy Collins
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Key: A minor•
Verse 1
Am
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F
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What's it up? Yeah.

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Right now it is indeed
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my funked up legend
F
F

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to introduce to you from the silver screen
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to HD to Blu -ray,
F
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Dm
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tell me what I say.

Let's hear it for Samuel L. Jackson
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Dm
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A .K .A. Sammy J,

put your hands together.
F
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Dm
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Let me drop a little knowledge

about how I got

from Chattanooga, Tennessee
F
F

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Dm
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to Big City, L .A. When I was a kid,
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F

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when I got up in the morning,
Dm
Dm

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there was music in my house.
Am
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F
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There was a whole gang of us
Dm
Dm

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walking to school together.
Em
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We would grab each other up
F
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from house to house.
Dm
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Every house had it's own beat,
C
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Dm
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G
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an d that beat carry us and our books all
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the way down the street.
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F
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G
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When we got to school,
Dm
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we used to have this thing

they called devotion,
Bb
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Dm
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where we had to do the Lord's Prayer,
Bb
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pledge allegiance to the flag,
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Dm
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sing America the Beautiful.

But once we'd done that,
G#
G#
4

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the teacher would let us pick
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a song that we wanted to sing.

We would always pick something cool.

You imagine a class

with about 30 little brothers and sisters

singing Peanut Butter and

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
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Or doing background to our

lead singer of the class,
C
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F
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Aquanetta Butts, as she sang,
Am
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This is dedicated to the one I love,
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Dm
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and we will.

Oh, that made the day so much better.

We could learn and learn,
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Dm
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learn an d burn.

As we got a little older,
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I think I bought my first 45.
Dm
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Am
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And I think it was, uh,
Dm
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F
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mama said that these days like this

Smokey was my man,
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then there was the Duke of Earl
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Ike and Tina, of course, James Brown
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Dm
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I learned to do the slob, the funky chicken,
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Dm
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the twist I was a -dancin',
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and I was certainly turn
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F
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in' the mother fuck
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F
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I felt like I was gonna live forever

The music just made me so strong
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Dm
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I got to college,

things started to groovin'
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even better
Dm
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Mobbing gays, laying it on us,
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making us feel all political
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I grew my hair long, had my frowns,

my army fatigue jacket
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F
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Fists in the air, stoke it, rap,

all the brothers
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Things were starting to make sense,

and nonsense
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I met brothers coming from Vietnam,


didn't even know where that was
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They said, if you don't stay in school,

man, you're gonna end up in the war.
F
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I was already in a war,
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a war of equality.
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Little did I know,
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F
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the war was just beginning.
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We're gonna turn this mother out.
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We're gonna turn this mother out.
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We don't turn this mug up
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We don't turn this mug up
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The government got kind of hip

to what we were trying to do

and they decided we

were going put an end to this
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They took all the

weed off the street
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Took all the acid off the street

And all they left was death,

the White Hawks
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We rode it, and we rode it hard
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But when that wasn't enough,
Dm
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they brought in that girl
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Oh Lord, that girl, we love that girl

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An acoustic guitar head with tuning pegs

Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • Am

  • G

  • C

  • Dm

  • F

  • Em

  • Bb

  • G#

    4

  • Bdim

Capo: 0

Transpose: 0

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The original key of After These Messages by Bootsy Collins is A minor.

The primary chords used in After These Messages are Am, G, C, Dm, F, Em.

No capo is required for this song.

Yes, this version uses open chords like Am, G, C, Dm, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of After These Messages is approximately 94 beats per minute.

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