Struggled & Strived chords by The Click
Verse 1
Em
I grip my teeth to keep release,
keep my faith and hope.
I grip my teeth to keep release,
C
keep my faith and hope.
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Am
C
Need to stop stressing for I have a stroke.
Em
Up in that lower development housing
C
house, tormenting turmoil
A
Food in our refrigerator,
C
Em
never had a chance to spoil
You know why?
C
Wasn't rich, wasn't poor
A
You know why?
C
Em
It's the wire cable from next door
C
A
Sleeping on the floor, hectic, hectic
Em
But that's expected when you're neglected
I never could afford no
Knox
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A
C
And everybody else had brand new bikes
Em
I used to hike to school in
C
the rain with fools
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C
Thirteen deep in the ghetto streets
Em
I've struggled and I've strived
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A
C
Struggled and I've strived
Em
Been a hustler all my life
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A
Been a hustler all my life
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Em
I ain't rich and I ain't poor
C
Can't get more dirt than
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C
you would know
Em
I've struggled and
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A
C
Em
I've strived
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A
And 1984 was the year for the shot
C
To step through the dome
Em
That's when my daddy
walked away from my mama
C
A
She tried to work it out,
C
but it wasn't no stoppin'
Em
Barely payin' the rent,
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A
she had four mouths to feed
C
Hot water, corn bread
Em
Watchin' her stress while my
C
momma straight hand me thangs
A
Calls the youngster like the
Am
shotgun jumpin'
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Em
Comin' up wasn't easy
C
for the notch that I be
A
Livin' day -to -day depended
C
on the first and fifteenth
Em
I had two kids to raise from a teenage love
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A
You couldn't tell me a thang
C
because I knew what was up
Em
I struggle and I strive
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A
Struggle and I strive
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Em
Been a hustler all my life
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A
Been a hustler all my life
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Em
I ain't rich and I ain't poor
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A
C
I get more dirt than you
Em
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A
Struggle and I strive
Em
Am
Em
I brought it down the block
crooked at sixteen
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A
Bought my first twenty -t
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wo from a dope fiend
I kept my nose clean
Em
C
Paper by all means and only real
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C
niggas rolled on the tin
Em
Most of you ain't never had to pawn it
C
A
Am
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A lot of you ain't never had to stone it
Em
C
But it's something different on my behalf
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C
A
Do what I do to get the cash
Em
My daddy didn't give me shit
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A
I had to struggle and strive to
C
make a motherfuckin' grip
Em
C
And every dollar and fifteen cents
A
I gave it to my mama cause we
C
wasn't that rich
Em
C
Hold me the notch, give up the twat
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C
Hoes wasn't takin' that shit on my block
Em
We had a lot of foes when we
C
first started out
Now it's players every
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where from the north to the south
Em
I struggled and I strived
C
A
Am
Struggled and I strived
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Em
Been a hustler all my life
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A
Oh yeah
Em
Play rich and I ain't poor
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A
I played my third game years ago
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Em
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A
Em
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A
I struggled and I strived
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Em
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A
Em
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A
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Em
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A
Em
It's been a since you've been down,
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A
C
but I thought I'd throw it all
Em
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A
I struggled an d I tried
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Em
It's been a rough one
in the meantime
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A
Em
But I'm still gonna do it all
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Em
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Bm
I struggled and I tried
Em
Gotta get a dollar from everywhere
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A
Gotta get a dollar from everywhere
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Em
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I struggled an d I tried
Em
I'm rich and I'm fine
Struggled & Strived
The Click
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