Key: D minor
Intro 1
Dm
Em
Dm
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Dm
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Dm
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Verse 1
Dm
work, hoes at work
I spend a day buzzed
wishing for Nikes in different flavors
Uncles named Larry,
that really never grabbed me
she really never had me
Scoot or Bae- Bae
With weight so they weigh they
This is Chicago in the heyday
I guess that I was JJ
young girls with Penny figures
stacked upon each other
other that we love so much
these drugs gonna touch
ain't really thug that much
than a Dutch to clutch
for a couple of years
with a couple of beers
now I gotta pay back loans
same shit they own
they click that chrome
Em
In my defense, yo, I had to hit that zone
I'm good working with my hands
workin' for the man
as my old man
Dm
My life I planned not to be on this corner
Verse 2
Dm
Em
your world)
(It's your world)
(It's your world)
(Oh, it's your world)
(Your world, your world)
G
Dm
Em
(It's your world) Yeah
Verse 3
Dm
from out of towners
It's hard to stay grounded
that's why old folks down us
the force that surrounds us
Ain't with us,
their names and scriptures
only to return through birth
wish she knew what it was worth
With a walk that suggests head,
cheese to get bread
weaves and less dreads
Kinda scary,
but I could tell her soul hurt
growin' up she got to know hurt
hate is overt
so her mother he strikes
who liked crimes and figures
In the ass, it used to be thicker
had a passion to sing
a casket in dreams
Blacks that lack
but we forgot the theme
for a garbage team
herself on this corner
Verse 4
Dm
Em
(It's your
world)
(It's your world)
(Oh, it's your world)
(Your world, your world)
Em
Dm
(It's your
Em
Dm
Verse 5
I wanna be a governor
I want to be a veterinarian
I wanna be a doctor
F
Dm
I wanna be a nurse
Em
Dm
F
I want to be a gym teacher
I wanna be a fashion designer
I want to be a duck
I wanna be a wrestler
American female president
Dm
F
I wanna be a police officer
I wanna be a rock star
Dm
F
I wanna be a drummer
I wanna be an actress
Verse 6
Dm
F
Be, be here, be there,
Em
Dm
F
Em
be that, be this
Be grateful for life,
Dm
F
Em
be grateful to life
G
Dm
Be gleeful everyday,
F
Em
G
Am
Em
G
Em
for being the best swimmer among 500,000
F
Am
F
Em
Benign, be you,
Dm
F
be mom's mean pie
Em
Dm
F
Be little black Sambo with bad hair
Em
Dm
Be aware of Willie Lynch- ism
Em
Dm
Be, be boundless energy
F
Em
G
Be a four star ghetto general,
Dm
F
C
Em
G
be no one except I
Dm
F
Be food for thought to the growing mind,
Em
G
Dm
be the author of your own horoscope
F
Em
G
F
Be invited, be long- living,
Em
G
be forgiving, be not forgetful
Be peaceful if possible,
Em
Am
but justice at any rate
Dm
Em
F
Be high when you low,
Em
Dm
be on time but know when to go
F
Em
G
Be cautious of the road to college,
F
Em
Dm
Em
taking a detour through Vietnam or the Middle East
G
Dm
F
Em
Be visual of foreclosure over your
G
F
shoulder while beggin'
Em
G
A nation built on free labor for reparation
Dm
Em
G
Be a
G
Dm
F
G
be able to find Afro- American land
F
Em
G
Dm
it may be close to black land
F
Em
G
Dm
Be amended
F
5 5ths, be
G
Dm
F
Be the owner of more land than is
Em
G
Dm
set aside for wild life
F
Em
Be Cupid to world
G
Dm
government
Be found among the truth,
Em
G
Dm
lost tribe
Dm
F
Be not foolish as temporary
Em
Dm
F
Em
king of the mountain top
F
Dm
Em
sparkling in the galaxy while walking on earth
Em
Dm
Gandhi and Martin Luther King
the resident of that twelfth house
Outro 1
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