Be For Real chords by
Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes

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Key: C minor•

Verse 1
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Hey, lady, can I say something
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to you for a minute?
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Please? No. Now before
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you take your coat off. That's it.
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I got something to tell you.
See, what I have to say is so very
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important to our relationship.
Why is it that every time we go out on the town,
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we get around our friends?
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Cm Cm 3
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Man, you're always talking about what you got,
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Csus4 Csus4 
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huh,
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Bb Bb 
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Went out and bought for you,
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How much money I  make,
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And what school our children go to,
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And all the fancy clothes and big pretty cars,
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The big diamond rings,
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and them fantastic mink coats.
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Is you for real? No, I
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don't think you are.
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Sit down. No, no, sit down.
Now don't say nothing.
You see...
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Wait a minute, wait a minute,
that is your problem.
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That is your problem. You're always saying
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the wrong tthing at the right time.
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You see... I  don't- - I don't know how
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to explain this to you.
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The best I can tell you is what my mother
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told me as I was coming up.
She used to say, "Son,
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chances go  'round."
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She said, "The same people
that you meet going up,
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they make the same old faces
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coming down."
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Heh, tell the truth.
You see, people today,
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they come out there to party.
They come out to party, man.
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Cm Cm 3
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They didn't come out to hear all that jive
mess you talking about.
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F F 
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Fm Fm 
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You standing up in the corner with a bottle of champagne taking about Harry,
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G G 
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Joe, and Dick and Bobby and what they ain't got,
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And they live down in the lower development homes,
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and you won't even help.
You won't even buy 'em a drink.
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Is that any way to meet them?
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If you're gonna boast,
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boast around somebody that has what you have.
Don't make your own brothers
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and sisters feel bad.
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You see... Listen.
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G G 
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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,
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Fm Fm 
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"Oh, papa, why? Why? Why don't nobody wanna be my friend?"
You told me a long time ago. You said,
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"Papa, what am I doing?"
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I didn't wanna tell you that.
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I thought you had sense enough to realize
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what you're doing, but I see you don't.
Sit down and listen to me. No,
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Bb Bb 
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sit down!
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You see, people are too sensitive today.
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They don't wanna hear all that jive
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you talking back.
You see, they don't wanna hear about what you got,
'cause they're trying to get it, too.
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Bb Bb 
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Heh, tell the truth.
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Cm Cm 3
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I can't very much blame her.
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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 Bb 
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this woman that," or "she ain't this" or "she ain't that."
I wanna be proud of you,
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Cm Cm 3
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mama.
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I wanna be proud of you.
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Listen, as long as you live.
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As long as you live whether
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you're with me or not,
Ab Ab 4
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Be for real,

Verse 2
girl.
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Ab Ab 4
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Just be for real, yeah. (Be for real.)
Be for real, girl.
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Be, be, be for real,
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Eb Eb 6
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Ab Ab 4
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yeah. (Be for re- e- e- eal.)
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Be for real.

Verse 3
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You shouldn't have to worry about
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how you've been living good,
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No, if you're smartly dressed. Hey,
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baby. Hey, baby.
What you should be doing is getting
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down on your knees every night,
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And thanking the man above
for being blessed right now.
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Fm Fm 
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
If you want your friends to think
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you're starting with a smile,
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Be for real, girl.
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Just be, be for real. (Be for
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Ab Ab 4
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real.)
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Be, be for real.
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Ab Ab 4
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Verse 4
Fm Fm 
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I can't let you go on chasing
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my friends away,
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Because of the silly and stupid
things you say.
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Yeah, baby. Yeah, baby. Hey, baby.
You better dig yourself there,
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woman.
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Putting people down is less best to you.
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It just don't pay. Hey, yeah.
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
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I want people today by starting with a smile,
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Be for real, girl.
I know, I know I want you to
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do is just be for real.
(Be for real.) Hey, lady. Yeah,
baby. Yeah, baby.
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(Be for real, girl.) Be for real, honey.
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Just be, be for real. (Be for
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real.)
I don't want your money. I don't
need your money.
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Ab Ab 4
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(Be for real, girl.) Just be for real. Just be for real,
mama.
Don't do it for me, do it for yourself.
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(Be for real.) Be for real, honey.
Yeah, yeah. Tell 'em ' bout
it, honey.
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(Be for real, girl.) Be for real,
mama. Hey, yeah.
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Just be, be, be for real. (Be for real.)

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