Key: C minor•
Verse 1
See, what I have to say is so very
Why is it that every time we go out on the town,
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Bb
we get around our friends?
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Cm
Man, you're always talking about what you got,
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Csus4
huh,
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Bb
Went out and bought for you,
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Fm
How much money I make,
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Bb
And what school our children go to,
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Cm
And all the fancy clothes and big pretty cars,
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F
The big diamond rings,
Now don't say nothing.
You see...
that is your problem.
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Fm
That is your problem. You're always saying
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Fm
told me as I was coming up.
She used to say, "Son,
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Bb
chances go 'round."
that you meet going up,
You see, people today,
They come out to party, man.
G
Cm
They didn't come out to hear all that jive
mess you talking about.
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Bb
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Fm
You standing up in the corner with a bottle of champagne taking about Harry,
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G
Joe, and Dick and Bobby and what they ain't got,
Cm
And they live down in the lower development homes,
You won't even buy 'em a drink.
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Cm
boast around somebody that has what you have.
Don't make your own brothers
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G
I know you know what I'm talking about, because from time to time, I can remember you coming to me putting your head on my shoulder and crying,
Cm
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Fm
"Oh, papa, why? Why? Why don't nobody wanna be my friend?"
You told me a long time ago. You said,
Cm
I thought you had sense enough to realize
Sit down and listen to me. No,
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Bb
sit down!
You see, they don't wanna hear about what you got,
'cause they're trying to get it, too.
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Bb
Heh, tell the truth.
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Cm
I can't very much blame her.
F
As much as it hurts me, it hurts to see people going around behind our backs saying that "this woman this,
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Bb
this woman that," or "she ain't this" or "she ain't that."
I wanna be proud of you,
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Cm
mama.
Verse 2
girl.
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Ab
Just be for real, yeah. (Be for real.)
Be for real, girl.
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Eb
Ab
yeah. (Be for re- e- e- eal.)
Verse 3
What you should be doing is getting
for being blessed right now.
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Fm
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
If you want your friends to think
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Ab
real.)
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Ab
Verse 4
Fm
I can't let you go on chasing
things you say.
You better dig yourself there,
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woman.
Bb
I want people today by starting with a smile,
I know, I know I want you to
(Be for real.) Hey, lady. Yeah,
baby. Yeah, baby.
I don't want your money. I don't
need your money.
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Ab
(Be for real, girl.) Just be for real. Just be for real,
mama.
Don't do it for me, do it for yourself.
Yeah, yeah. Tell 'em ' bout
it, honey.
mama. Hey, yeah.
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