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Brooklyn chords by 
Mos Def 
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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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