Beat Street Breakdown chords by Melle mel, The Furious Five
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Intro 1
(A major) (A minor) (A major) (E major) (A major) (A minor)
(A major) (A minor)
(A major) (A minor) (A major) (A minor)
(G major) (A minor) (A major) (A minor) (F major)
(A major) (F major) (A minor) (G major) (A minor) (A major)
(D major) (G major) (A major) (A minor) (G major)
(F sharpdim) (F major) (E minor) (E major)
Verse 1
Beat (E major) Street break down (A minor)
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Interlude 1
(A major) (G major) (A major) (G major) (A major) (A minor) (A major)
(G major) (A major) (G major) (A major) (G major) (A major) (A minor)
Verse 2
Beat Street The (A minor)
king of the beat
(G major) You see him rocking that (A major) beat from
(A minor) across the street
And Huh Huh!
Beat (A major) Street is a lesson too,
because you can't let the Streets beat you! (A minor)
(E major) (A major) (F major) (G major)
Verse 3
Well (A major) a (A minor) pic ture can express a thousand word
(G major) s to describe all the (A major) beauty of life you give
And (A minor) if the world (A major) was yours (A minor) to do over,
I know you'd paint a better (F major) place to live
(A minor) Where the colours would swirl and the boys
and girls (G major) can grow in (A minor) peace and harmony
(F major) And where murals stand on walls so (A major) grand
as far as the (F major) eyes are able to see, Ha!
I (A minor) never knew art til I (A major) saw your face (F sharp minor) and there'll
(A major) never be (A minor) one to take your place
(A major) 'Cause (A minor) each and every (A major) time
you touch the spray paint can
Michelan (F major) gelo's (A major) soul controls your hand
(F sharp minor) Then (A minor) serenades of blue and red and the
(G major) beauty of the (A minor) rainbow fills your head
(A major) Crescendo of (G major) colours (A minor) hang in tune,
Man why oh why d'ya have to die so soon?
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, (G major)
where the good die (A minor) young it's all thy must
'Cause as life must (A major) live,
death must die and the tear shall fall from the living eye, Huh!
The (A minor) teardrops fall for the state of mind (G major)
of the beautiful (A minor) lady that you left behind
(A major) In love and alone, but now you're dead,
and she still can't get you out of her head, Huh!
(A minor) More tears fall for all you've done, (A major)
trying to be a good (A minor) father to your only son
(A major) But now who's gonna make sure that he's fed,
put a shirt on his back (A major) and a roof (A minor) overhead?
Tell me who's gonna dream the impossible dream (G major)
of the beautiful (A major) cities in the (A minor) islands genes?
(A major) When your (D major) works of art (G major) brought (A minor) into being all
(F major) that the (A minor) ghetto stopped (A major) you from seeing
(A minor) Bums on the sidewalk, garbage in the (G major) streets,
abandoned build (A major) ings, brick (A minor) s of concrete
The ladies on the (D major) corner are (A minor) selling their bodies,
and everybody wants a part in that party
I'm hanging out tough, rocking late at night, (G major)
running wild in the (A minor) town of the neon light
(D major) You either (A minor) play some ball or
stand in the hall (G major) Huh!
You gotta make (A minor) something
outta nothing at all
I'm sitting in the classroom learning the rules and it says (G major)
you can't do graf (A minor) fiti in school
They can't be wrong in the hallowed hall, (A major)
so my (G major) notebook (A minor) turned into a brick wall
The heart of a lion and the courage of three, (A major)
and the (G major) mind of a (A minor) man much wiser than me
You're the soul of the (A major) brother
who won't come back
Who died in my (G major) arms on the
(A minor) railroad track
'Cause I'm caught in the rat race,
looking for my own space
There's (G major) gotta be a (A minor) better
place for you and me
There's pie in the sky,
and an eye for an eye
Some people gotta die just to be free
You search for justice
and what do you find (G major) ?
You find just us (A minor) on
the unemployment line
(D major) You find (A minor) just us sweating
from dawn to dusk
(G major) There's no justice, (A minor)
there's Huh, just us, Ha!
Still life urban masterpiece,
(G major) your trademark (A minor) was written on trains and walls
A million dollar gift only God released,
(G major) and yet you got (A minor) killed for nothing at all
So after this there'll be no more (G major) hard times,
no more bad (A minor) times and no more pain
No more chump change, none of that (F sharp minor) bull
Just (G major) movies,
mu (A minor) seums and the hall of fame
So all you Hip Hops get on (G major) up , and let's
take it to the (A minor) top where we belong
'Cause the age of the (A major) Beat
Street wave is here
(A minor) Everybody let's sing along, now c'mon,
say 'Ho!' ('Ho!'), Say (G major) (A minor) 'Ho!' ('Ho!')
And to let me know I'm rocking the microphone everybody
say 'Ramo!' ('Ramo!')
'Ramo!' ('Ramo!')
Raah!
Verse 4
A newspaper burns (A minor) in the sand, (G major)
and the headlines (A minor) say 'Man destroys (F major) Man!'
(A major) Extra! Ex (F major) tra! Read (A minor) all the bad (A major) news on the war
for peace that every (G major) body would (F sharp minor) lose
The (A minor) rise and fall, the last great empire,
the (G major) sound of the (A minor) whole world caught on fire
The ruthless (A major) struggle,
the desperate (A major) gamble
The (F major) game that left the whole
(A minor) world in shambles
The cheats, the lies, the alibis
And the (G major) foolish attempt (A minor) to
conquer the skies
(F major) Lost in space, and (A minor) what is it worth, (F major) huh?
The president (A minor) just forgot
about Earth
Spending multi billions,
and maybe even trillions
The (G major) cost of (A minor) weapons ran
into zillions
There's gold in the street,
and diamonds under feet
And the (G major) children in (A minor) Africa don't even eat
Flies on their faces,
they're living like mice
And the (G major) houses even (A minor) make
the ghetto look nice, Huh!
The water tastes funny,
it's forever too sunny
And they (G major) work all (A minor) month and
don't make no money
A fight for power, a nuclear shower
(G major) And (A minor) people shout out in the darkest hour
Of sights unseen and voices un (A minor) heard
And finally the bomb get
(A minor) s the last word
Christians killed Muslims,
and Germans killed (G major) Jews
And everybody's (A minor) bodies are used and abused,
Huh!
(D major) Minds are (A minor) poisoned and souls are polluted
Superiority (A major) complex (A minor) is deep rooted
Leeches and lice's, and people
got (A major) prices (G major)
(A minor) Egomaniacs control the
self- righteous
Nothing is sacred and nothing is pure
So the revela (F major) tion of death (A minor) is our cure
Hitler and Caesar, Custer and Reagan
Na (G major) poleon, Castro, (A minor)
Mussolini and Begin
Ghengis Khan and the Shah of Iran
Mixed with the (F major) blood of the weaker man
(A minor) The peoples in terror,
the leaders made the (G major) error
And now they can't (A minor) even
look in the mirror
'Cause we gotta suffer
while things get (G major) rougher
And that's the reason (A minor) why
we got to get tougher
To learn from the past
and work for the future
And (G major) don't be a (A minor) slave to no computer
'Cause the Children of
Man inherits the land
And the (G major) fu ture of the
(A minor) world is in your hands
So just throw your hands in the air
(G major) And wave 'em like you (A minor) just don't care
And if you believe that
you're the future
Scream it out and say (A minor) 'Oh
yeah!' ('Oh yeah!')
'Oh yeah!' ('Oh (G major) (A minor) (F major) (A minor) (F major)
(A minor) (G major) (F sharpdim) (F major) (E minor) (E major) yeah!')
Verse 5
Raah!
(E major) Beat Street Breakdown
(A minor)
Raah!
Outro 1
Hip Hop!
(A minor)
(A minor) (A minor)
Beat Street Breakdown
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