Story By Erykah Badu chords by Big Sean

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Verse 1
Em 
Am 
C 
 (E minor) Here I am,  (A minor)  (C major) Miss Badu, not Big Sean
Em 
B 
 (E minor) But I don't  (B major) fuck with you
Em 
Am 
 (E minor) It's 'cause I'm from the  (A minor) D,
the other D
C 
But  (C major) Detroit  has a special place
Em 
 (E minor) in my heart
C 
B 
 (C major) Creative, deep, rooted,  (B major) organic, cosmic,
Am 
Em 
 (A minor) fantastic,  (E minor) futuristic, ancient, musical
Dm 
Em 
 (D minor) When I think of  (E minor) Detroit,
C 
I think of these  (C major) things
B 
There something in that dirty  (B major) wa
C 
Em 
ter that  (C major) gives  (E minor) it  its flavor
Dm 
C 
 (D minor) There's an invis (C major) ible intelligence that runs though the
Em 
B 
Em 
streets  (E minor)  (B major) like an underground  (E minor) rooting system
C 
Em 
 (C major) Millions and billions of memory  (E minor) of atoms of all of the beautiful
Dm 
Em 
C 
music  (D minor) that has been created  (E minor) there  (C major) 
B 
Am 
And I've seen it  (B major) evolve into things  (A minor) only felt in the heart,
B 
 (B major) I know this to be true
Em 
C 
 (E minor) Thank you Berry Gordy,  (C major) 
Em 
B 
 (E minor) for that little  (B major) house
Em 
Thank you Stevie Won (E minor) der for always calling me
Dm 
C 
Am 
and re (D minor) minding me  (C major) that it is there, that thing  (A minor) 
B 
I always  (B major) long to reconnect with it when I lose
Em 
Dm 
my way music (E minor) ally  (D minor) 
F 
C 
 (F major) Thank you J  (C major) Dilla for your peculiar,
B 
Em 
Dm 
 (B major) peculiar intelli (E minor) gence  (D minor) 
Am 
C 
 (A minor) Yeah, Detroit just has a magic,  (C major) 
and I know it to be true
Bb 
Not Big  (B flat major) Sean,
Dm 
 (D minor) but I don't fuck with you
Live from Badubotron, Nubian
E 
phenomen (E major) on
G#m 
Detroit,  (G sharp minor) where the Nubians grow