Key: B major
Verse 1
ladies and gentlemen.
Surely do appreciate it.
This next song I'm gonna do
for y 'all tonight
and growing up.
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memory lane real quick.
I got my man Sonny Bonahoe
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A
I'ma let him set it off like this.
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When I was a child,
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Bm
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things were plain and beautiful
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Bm
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things were plain and beautiful
E
Em
Beautiful things was just time to leave
E
A
An d home replaced where
anyone could see
A
Bm
I wish I could go back,
E
Em
I miss livin' with no
to starin' Ninja Turtles
A
Bm
A
In Street Fighter II, in Super Mario World,
you're all that
E
Em
Life was so simple then,
on the playground at recess
D
C#m
Man, remember bowlin' at Leilani
and down to Sunset?
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A
to daily straight shut down Funplex
E
Em
But it's all good, you know
was to be a professional in basketball
C#m
A
to make it in this rap shit
let me bar the chronic
and straight got hooked
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Bm
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things were plain and beautiful
E
Em
Beautiful things were just not to be
E
A
And home and place where
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Bm
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things were plain and beautiful
E
Em
Beautiful things can just come to me
E
A
Every place where anyone can see,
yeah
A
Bm
As an obnoxious little shit, you know
one -on -one and fight
you don't really want it right
E
Bm
E
And my hero at the time,
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Em
E
So naturally, I wanted to kick his ass
DL up in gym class
D
C#m
Yeah, I was corny as hell
when trying to act hard
E
Bm
E
When used to re -enact Raw's
E
Em
And I remember watching
but you're my doom to the end
A
Bm
And the first time I kissed a girl,
for believing in my talent show
for denying my ass from
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Bm
things were plain and beautiful
E
Em
s which has come to be
E
A
A homely place where
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Bm
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things were plain an d beautiful
E
Em
Beautiful things which has come to be
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A homely place where anyone can sit
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Bm
One of the G's, Steve,
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Josh, Keith and D
Yeah, those were my dudes
E
Em
And Bob and Ryan, Kim, Chris,
And now I'm wishin' that
they went slow
A
C#m
drinkin' forties at the bluff
A
Bm
Evading cops at Green Lake
E
Em
And I re member freestylin'
to Andy's old crib
his mom was like a home kid
D
C#m
It's all up though, I ain't gonna be fake
A
Bm
It was a wake -up call for me
E
Em
E
And so, I got a job in the kitchen
To make my CD and it's no joke,
A
Bm
Big ups to Dash for lettin' me straight
E
Em
Hoes with his salad days
In front of the whole school, for real
D
C#m
If I could turn back the hands of time
Em
E
Things eventually change
down memory lane
D
C#m
If I could turn back the hands of time
A
Bm
Man I'd go back and
do it all over again
Em
E
Things eventually change
down memory lane
D
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When I was a child
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Bm
things were plain and beautiful
A
E
Beautiful things was just out to reach
D
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When I was a child
C#m
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Bm
A
things were plain and beautiful
Beautiful things was just out to reach
Yeah
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