Key: G# minor
Verse 1
Em
F#m
E
Ba -dup, ba -dup, ba -dup
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Em
Ba -dup, ba -dup,
B
F#m
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ba -ba -da -ba -ba -dup
Em
B
Em
Hey, hey, do you re member
E
Em
E
Em
Back in the day when
we were innocent
Do you remember those days?
Am
Em
Am
Em
E
I want to go back to
A
Em
E
those days.
A
D
Em
I want to remember
those
Do you remember?
beautiful.
This seedling sprouted
in a chocolate city oasis
nestled comfortably
between urban reality and nature,
busting at the seams
with new brown two -parent families,
D
A
more than enough.
of prophets
and wide -sweeping Supreme Court rulings,
bedtime stories were mixed with mantras
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G
Em
proclaiming that the world was mine,
Em
E
in bobos and tough -skin jeans,
typical dress -up dolls cast aside for tackle
A
E
football and climbing trees,
Am
E
lop sided afro puffs of pigtails
adorned with grass clippings,
pine needles and leaves,
Space Invaders on Atari,
D
Em
living my version of free,
E
Seems impossible that our Babies will have many
pleasant memories
Em
E
when they seldom see more than potholed
asphalt or heavy traffic.
Crushed crack vials and
broken 40 bottles
glistening like cheap glitter
provide not even the slightest semblance
of nature or fertile soil.
Today's ghetto flowers
bring forth their thorns before
their petals.
Vivid colors or fragrance
regarded as signs of weakness.
and rewarded,
So their dreams are calloused,
tough skin embedded instead of
Em
wash and wear.
E
Em
And I pray that their spirits find a grassy
I pray that their laughter rides a breeze beyond
tenement rooftops and circulates.
I pray that the drill team stomps squash
out all the noise
you need you black child
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E
if i'm blessed enough
to make my old and gray
i want to be able to proclaim this music and
poetry grooved so deep
that it caused the tide to change
that it reversed soul erosion
and built a foundation for change
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E
i want want to look back on my life and smile because I made a way so we all can say,
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Em
E
do you remember?
we were innocent?
E
D
E
Do you recall those days?
Am
Em
Am
I want to
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A
E
go back to those days.
I want to remember, do you remember?
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