Chords for 26 Years, 17 Days

_ _ [F] _ _ [Db] Yo, what's up? _
[Ab] No, my brother, [Bb] not today.
I'm on my way [Gb] somewhere.
_ _ Let me tell you a little [Fm] story, man, what [C] happened to me
not that [Eb] long ago, yo.
Check this out.
_ [Ab] See, I was looking for [F] God at [Db] my grandmama's house.
[Ab] _ Underneath the [Bb] cushions on the couch,
[Gb] I looked all [Fm] around, side to side, up and down that [Eb] man.
Nowhere to be found.
[Ab] So I called [Db] my grandmama on the phone, said,
old [Ab] lady, you best get home.
Because [Bb] God ain't where he [Gb] said he would be.
[Fm] And there's something that I really
[F] need to speak [Fm] with him about [Eb] immediately.
_ [Ab] She said, boy, tell granny what's [Bbm] wrong.
Is [Ab] there something I can do?
I said, [Bb] big mama, now it's a [Gb] sensitive [Fm] issue.
And Lord knows I [C] don't want to worry you.
But I [Eb] need somebody to talk to.
[Fm] It's been 26 [Gb] years, 17 [Db] days.
Been to [Ab] five different prisons, got [Db] two babies on the way.
[Gb] And they say [Fm] it'll be a waste of time to pray.
Saying that I'm going [Eb] to hell anyway.
_ It's been [Ab] 26 [F] years, [Fm] 17 [Db] days.
Been to [Ab] five different prisons, got [Bb] two babies on the way.
They [Gb] say [Fm] it'll be a waste of time to pray.
Saying that I'm [Eb] going to hell anyway.
She got [Ab] to smoke weed with [F] the best of y [Ab]'all.
She had it [Db] all arrested, y'all.
My [Ab] heart hurt like an old man with high [Db] cholesterol.
Pray to [Fm] Satan, I'm the dirtiest duty ever [F] solved.
Shouldn't even be living.
_ [Db] Can't hear a [Ab] question.
Should have been dead like [Db] 17 times from [Ab] 17 crimes I [Bb] committed.
Took a mortal [Fm]
[Gb] trial and got [Fm] acquitted.
Left waving my middle finger in the air.
Whispered in a [Eb] prosecutor's ear.
Yeah, [Ab] I just know everything [F] from [Db] dreams to wedding rings.
[Ab] Auctioned off my soul for material [Bb] things.
[Db] But [Gb] lately, it's been kind of bothering me.
[Fm] I guess that turtle [Gb] always catches up with [Eb] the rabbit eventually.
[Ab] It's been 26 [F] years, [Bbm] 17 [Db] days.
Been to [Ab] five different prisons, got two [Db] babies on the way.
And they say [Fm] it'll be a waste of time to [Fm] pray.
Saying that I'm going [Eb] to hell anyway.
It's been [Ab] 26 [F] years, 17 [Db] days.
Been to [Ab] five different prisons, got [Bb] two babies on the way.
They [Gb] say [Fm] it'll be a waste of time to pray.
Saying that I'm going [Eb] to hell anyway.
_ [Ab] _
_ _ _ [Db] Somebody loves you, baby.
Somebody [Ab] loves you, loves you, [Abm] loves you.
_ _ [Gb] _
_ _ Somebody loves you, [Fm] baby. _
When you think [Eb] no one does, somebody loves you, baby.
[Db] Somebody loves you, baby.
Somebody.
[Ab] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ Somebody loves you, [F] baby.
[Fm] Somebody loves you, somebody [Bbm] cares for you.
Somebody does.
[Ab] _
_ _ _ [Db] Somebody loves you, baby.
[Ab] Ooh, ooh, ooh, my [Eb] bro.
_ _ [Gb] _
_ _ _ Somebody loves [Fm] you, baby.
Cause it ain't no fun, [Eb] but still a chance, [Ab] still a way.
_ Somebody loves [Db] _ you, somebody [Ab] cares _ _ _ for you.
That's my jam, that's my jam right there.
Patty is amazing.
But what's even more amazing is that four years later,
still in prison, I was still on the road
to becoming a better person, a better father,
a better son, a better individual, all around individual.
But I saw a lot of fake things going on in the church.
People, you know, faking like, you know,
_ everybody else is bad and ain't nobody holier than thou
and all that other stuff.
And so I just came to a point to where _