Brooklyn

Brooklyn easy guitar chords by Mos Def

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Fret 4

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  • Am

  • D

  • Dm

  • Em

  • F

  • E

  • C#m

    4
  • Fm

  • Edim

  • Am

  • D

  • Dm

  • Em

  • F

  • E

  • C#m

    4
  • Fm

  • Edim

  • Verse 1
    Am

    Heh, hey, hey
    D
    Dm
    Am

    Ha, ha, say what? Say what?
    Em
    F

    Ha, ha, bust it, yo (ha ha, ha ha)
    Am
    Sometimes I
    Verse 2
    Dm
    Am

    feel like I

    don't have a partner
    Dm
    Am
    Dm

    Sometimes I feel
    Am
    Em

    like my only friend
    F
    Am
    D

    Is the city I live in is beautiful Brooklyn
    Am

    Long as I live here believe
    Em

    I'm on fire, hey
    F
    Am

    'Cause it's the B- the- R-

    the- O- the- O- K
    E
    Dm

    L- y- n is the place where I stay
    Am

    The B- to- the- R- to- the- O- the- O- K
    C#m

    Best in the world and all USA
    Fm
    Am

    It's the B- to- the- R- the- O- the- O- K
    Em

    L- y- n is the place where I
    D

    stay (ha ha, ha ha)
    Dm
    Am

    The B- to- the- R- to- the- O- the- O- K
    Em
    F

    Place where I rest is on my born day,
    Am

    bust it
    Verse 3

    Sometimes I sit back and just reflect

    Watch the world go by and
    Dm

    my thought connect
    Am

    I think about the time past and

    the time to come
    Em

    Reminisce on Bed- Stuy when I
    F

    was spry and young
    Am

    I used to try and come to

    the neighborhood function (right)

    Throw on my Izod, say
    Dm

    a little something
    Am

    When I was just a younging (uh), before

    the days of thugging (right)
    Em

    How me and Charlie
    F

    Chims (yo, what?) I'm only bugging
    Am

    Fast forward, nine- now I gotta

    team my seed (right)

    I must proceed at Godspeed

    to perform my deed
    Dm
    Am

    Livin' the now space and time,

    'round the nine to five
    Dm
    Am

    For as long as I'm alive, pa, I got to strive
    F
    Am

    I ain't sitting roadside,

    that ain't harder to plan
    Em

    I'm out here for my fam,
    Am

    doing all that I can

    I love my city,

    sweet and gritty inland to outskirts
    Em

    Nickname Bucktown

    cause we grown to outburst
    Am

    Philosophy redefine us, touch

    mine I touch back
    Em

    Walk the streets like a sweet

    and get beat like drum tracks
    Am

    Catch no shakes over jakes

    (boop- boop), we bust back
    Em

    Bring the marty to your face wit' no
    Am

    place to run back

    I'm from the slums that created the

    bass that thump back

    This ain't a game clown,
    Em

    play ya James Brown and jump back
    Am

    What you want,

    Jack? Young cats stash they jums at

    Draw they guns back,
    Em
    Edim

    momma screams where she sons at
    Am

    Tryna hunt that,

    recurring dream of high stakes
    Em

    The fourth largest, first hardest,
    Edim
    Em

    Brooklyn is the place
    Am

    Settled by the Dutch many years ago
    Em

    Three billion strong and
    C#m

    here we go
    E
    Verse 4
    C#m

    E

    Good morning, Vietnam
    C#m

    Ha (back up, back up, back up,

    back up, back up, back up)

    (We live in Brooklyn, baby)

    (Back up, back up, back up,

    back up, back up, back up)

    (We live in Brooklyn, baby)
    Verse 5
    C#m

    Yo, sometime I sit back,

    reflect on the place that I live at
    Em
    C#m

    Unlike any place I ever been at

    The home of big gats,

    deep dish hammer rim caps
    Em
    C#m

    Have a mishap, push ya wig back

    Where you go to get the fresh trim at

    Fulton and Jay got the Timb rack

    Blue collars metro carding it

    Thugs mobbing it, form partnership

    Increase armament, street pharmacist

    Deep consequence,

    when you seek sleek ornaments

    You get caught,
    Em
    C#m

    rode the white horse and can't get off

    Big dogs that trick off just get sent off

    They shoebox stash is all

    they seeds gotta live off

    It's real, yo but still, yo, it's love here
    Em

    And it's felt by any
    C#m

    body that come here

    Out of towners take the train,

    plane and bus here

    Must be something that they

    really want here

    One year as a resident,

    deeper sentiment

    They shout out "Go Brooklyn",

    they representing it

    Sitting on they front stoop

    sipping Guinesses

    Using native dialect in they sentences

    From the tree- line blocks to the tenements

    To the Mom and Pop local

    shop businesses

    Travel all around the world

    in great distances
    Em

    And ain't a place that I know
    C#m

    that bear resemblance

    That's why we it The Planet

    Not a borough or a province,
    E
    C#m

    our style is un common

    From Sumner to Tompkins

    to Lafayette Gardens

    Wyckoff, Gowanus,

    in they army jacket linings, yo

    This goes out to my cats in Coney Isle

    Friday night out in front

    The Himalaya goin wild

    This goes out to Crown Heights

    and Smurv Village
    Em

    The nighties, and all my Yard' and
    C#m

    Trinis, Brown's Village

    Parkside tennis caught, thirties,

    forties, and the fifties

    The cats out in Starrett City gettin' busy

    To the Hook, to the East, to the Stuy

    Bushwick and Canarsie, Farragut,
    Em
    C#m

    Fort Greene, and Marcy

    My Flatbush posse,

    generals of armies

    When it's time to form, just call me

    And let this song be playing loud in Long B

    If you love Bucktown strongly

    Raise it up
    Verse 6

    Brooklyn my habitat, the place where it happen at


    Live sway and the sharp

    balance of the battle axe

    Irons is brandished at, thugs draw

    they hammer back

    It's where you find the News

    Two crew cameras at

    It's where my fam is at,

    the summertime jam is at

    They play Big and get you open

    like a sandal back

    Hotter than candle wax,

    hustling you can't relax

    The crack babies tryna find

    where they mama's at

    It's off the handle, black,

    with big police scandals that

    Turn into actions screenplays sold

    to Miramax

    The type of place where they check

    your appearance at

    And cats who know where all

    the hot 'lo gear is at

    The stomping grounds,

    where you find a pound smoke is that

    Be blazing John that have your wave

    cap floating back

    The doorstep where

    the dispossessed posted at

    Dope fiends out on Franklin

    Ave selling Zovirax

    You big balling better keep

    your money folded back

    'Cause once the young guns notice that it's over,

    black

    Brooklyn keep on taking it,

    worldwide we known for that

    Flossy cats get it snatched

    like the local tax

    The place I sharpen up

    my baritone vocals at

    Where one of the greatest

    MC's was a local cat

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