Chords for B.Reith Unplugged: "Old School" Acoustic Performance
Tempo:
107.8 bpm
Chords used:
Ab
C
Bb
Eb
Dbm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[E] Alright, old school, let's see.
I had a couple verses written over the years about [C]
my frustrations as wanting to rap or
wanting to sing.
And a lot of time when people first [E] heard my music, the general comment I would get
is, hey, I wish you would just sing.
Or some people, I wish you would rap more.
And if I read reviews, it'll mess me up in the head so bad.
And so it's just about me, us being free to just be ourselves.
And the more I try to act or fit into a stereotype, the less free I am.
And what the world needs is us [C] to be ourselves.
We don't need carbon copies.
So it's fun and bouncy.
And here it is, old school.
[Ab]
[Dbm] [Ab] I can't believe these people, man.
[Dbm] [Ab] You can imagine how I felt when I heard the news [Dbm] that I can't rap and sing, but I had to [Ab] choose.
What?
I just looked at him and started laughing.
I [Dbm] don't think y'all understand.
Just call me [Ab] Bo Jackson.
If y'all can play sports at the same time, [Dbm] I'm pretty sure that I can sing and [Bb] can rhyme.
I'm quite confident in my competence.
Not too concerned with your [Ab] compliments.
If I gotta work twice as hard, then [Bb] so be it.
But I'ma make this happen whether you [Ab] believe it or not.
Jokers can't even see what I [Eb] got.
Type of killer combo that'll make you breathe and stop.
Still critics, you wanna doubt my [C] skills.
Stand me down, sizing me up like a value [Bm] meal.
I'm testing and I prove you value's real.
[Db] Still I say my best move like Zooland, I save you [Fm] steel.
So tired of [C] trying to please everyone.
[Fm] A million [C] different opinions.
[Ab] I'm just going [C] to be myself [Bb] whether they like it or not.
[Eb] I give it all that I got.
[Ab] They say keep on doing what you do, B.
[Bb] And maybe one day you'll end up in the movies.
And maybe [Abm] I can play Shaggy and Scooby [Eb]-Doo 3 and co-star with Angelina Jolie.
[Bb] Whoops, I meant [Abm] Jolie.
Okie [Bb] dokie.
I didn't come just to mess around and make jokes.
[B] See, I got a mission and a thing that ain't an antidote.
[G] A contradiction to the [Eb] message of Oprah [Ab] Winfrey.
Whoops, did I just say that out loud?
Well, there we [Eb] go, now it's out.
I won't be in a magazine or on [Ab] a TV show now.
But I refuse to be duped into [Eb] believing the truth is whatever you choose to [Abm] believe in.
Oh boy, here come the [Bb] protesters.
Get out your helmets and your bulletproof [B] vest.
They're coming for you if you rock the [Bb] boat.
I'm going to go against the [Gm] flow of the status [Fm] quo.
I'm so tired of [C] trying to please everyone.
Can't [Fm] do it a million, [C] differing opinions.
[Ab] I'm [C] just going [F] to be [F] myself [Bb] whether they like it or [Bbm] not.
I [Eb] give it all that I got.
[G] [Fm]
[C] [Fm]
[C] [Cm]
[F] [F]
[Eb] [Dbm] You can't put me in a box or put me in a [Ab] genre.
I'm going to work it out like my name was Jane [Dbm] Fonda.
Came from the same city as Jeffrey [Ab] Dahmer.
I don't make me crazy.
You can ask my [Dbm] mama.
She raised me to behave and not to cause [Ab] drama.
Sorry for this one, I had to let them [Bb] have it.
The flow's still automatic.
I told you I'm back at it.
Just call me O.J.
I had to take a [Ab] stab at it.
Whoa, that's some tongue in cheek.
[Eb] Want pizza, yeah, go I make one a week.
[Ab] Put some hot sauce to the top to care for they [Eb] spicy.
Plus I'm nice with the Micey.
They like it like Mikey.
More flavorful than Hi-C.
Cooler than Ice-E.
If I was born two weeks earlier, I would have been a [E] Pisces.
[D] Couldn't have been said more [F] precisely.
Better book me [C] now before I get too [Abm] spicy.
I [Db] know you are entitled [Ab] to your own opinion.
[Dbm] But that don't mean that you know [Ab] how to run my business.
[Dbm] See, I'm a work in progress [Bb] that is still not finished.
Oh, I'm [D] still not finished.
[Eb] [E]
I had a couple verses written over the years about [C]
my frustrations as wanting to rap or
wanting to sing.
And a lot of time when people first [E] heard my music, the general comment I would get
is, hey, I wish you would just sing.
Or some people, I wish you would rap more.
And if I read reviews, it'll mess me up in the head so bad.
And so it's just about me, us being free to just be ourselves.
And the more I try to act or fit into a stereotype, the less free I am.
And what the world needs is us [C] to be ourselves.
We don't need carbon copies.
So it's fun and bouncy.
And here it is, old school.
[Ab]
[Dbm] [Ab] I can't believe these people, man.
[Dbm] [Ab] You can imagine how I felt when I heard the news [Dbm] that I can't rap and sing, but I had to [Ab] choose.
What?
I just looked at him and started laughing.
I [Dbm] don't think y'all understand.
Just call me [Ab] Bo Jackson.
If y'all can play sports at the same time, [Dbm] I'm pretty sure that I can sing and [Bb] can rhyme.
I'm quite confident in my competence.
Not too concerned with your [Ab] compliments.
If I gotta work twice as hard, then [Bb] so be it.
But I'ma make this happen whether you [Ab] believe it or not.
Jokers can't even see what I [Eb] got.
Type of killer combo that'll make you breathe and stop.
Still critics, you wanna doubt my [C] skills.
Stand me down, sizing me up like a value [Bm] meal.
I'm testing and I prove you value's real.
[Db] Still I say my best move like Zooland, I save you [Fm] steel.
So tired of [C] trying to please everyone.
[Fm] A million [C] different opinions.
[Ab] I'm just going [C] to be myself [Bb] whether they like it or not.
[Eb] I give it all that I got.
[Ab] They say keep on doing what you do, B.
[Bb] And maybe one day you'll end up in the movies.
And maybe [Abm] I can play Shaggy and Scooby [Eb]-Doo 3 and co-star with Angelina Jolie.
[Bb] Whoops, I meant [Abm] Jolie.
Okie [Bb] dokie.
I didn't come just to mess around and make jokes.
[B] See, I got a mission and a thing that ain't an antidote.
[G] A contradiction to the [Eb] message of Oprah [Ab] Winfrey.
Whoops, did I just say that out loud?
Well, there we [Eb] go, now it's out.
I won't be in a magazine or on [Ab] a TV show now.
But I refuse to be duped into [Eb] believing the truth is whatever you choose to [Abm] believe in.
Oh boy, here come the [Bb] protesters.
Get out your helmets and your bulletproof [B] vest.
They're coming for you if you rock the [Bb] boat.
I'm going to go against the [Gm] flow of the status [Fm] quo.
I'm so tired of [C] trying to please everyone.
Can't [Fm] do it a million, [C] differing opinions.
[Ab] I'm [C] just going [F] to be [F] myself [Bb] whether they like it or [Bbm] not.
I [Eb] give it all that I got.
[G] [Fm]
[C] [Fm]
[C] [Cm]
[F] [F]
[Eb] [Dbm] You can't put me in a box or put me in a [Ab] genre.
I'm going to work it out like my name was Jane [Dbm] Fonda.
Came from the same city as Jeffrey [Ab] Dahmer.
I don't make me crazy.
You can ask my [Dbm] mama.
She raised me to behave and not to cause [Ab] drama.
Sorry for this one, I had to let them [Bb] have it.
The flow's still automatic.
I told you I'm back at it.
Just call me O.J.
I had to take a [Ab] stab at it.
Whoa, that's some tongue in cheek.
[Eb] Want pizza, yeah, go I make one a week.
[Ab] Put some hot sauce to the top to care for they [Eb] spicy.
Plus I'm nice with the Micey.
They like it like Mikey.
More flavorful than Hi-C.
Cooler than Ice-E.
If I was born two weeks earlier, I would have been a [E] Pisces.
[D] Couldn't have been said more [F] precisely.
Better book me [C] now before I get too [Abm] spicy.
I [Db] know you are entitled [Ab] to your own opinion.
[Dbm] But that don't mean that you know [Ab] how to run my business.
[Dbm] See, I'm a work in progress [Bb] that is still not finished.
Oh, I'm [D] still not finished.
[Eb] [E]
Key:
Ab
C
Bb
Eb
Dbm
Ab
C
Bb
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ Alright, old school, let's see.
I had a couple verses written over the years about _ [C]
my frustrations as wanting to rap or
wanting to sing.
And a lot of time _ when people first [E] heard my music, the general comment I would get
is, hey, I wish you would just sing.
Or some people, I wish you would rap more.
And if I read reviews, it'll mess me up in the head so bad.
And so it's just about me, us being free to just be ourselves.
And the more I try to _ act or fit into a stereotype, the less free I am.
And what the world needs is us [C] to be ourselves.
We don't need carbon copies.
So _ _ it's fun and bouncy.
And here it is, old school.
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ [Dbm] _ _ [Ab] I can't believe these people, man.
_ _ [Dbm] _ _ [Ab] You can imagine how I felt when I heard the news [Dbm] that I can't rap and sing, but I had to [Ab] choose.
What?
I just looked at him and started laughing.
I [Dbm] don't think y'all understand.
Just call me [Ab] Bo Jackson.
If y'all can play sports at the same time, [Dbm] I'm pretty sure that I can sing and [Bb] can rhyme.
I'm quite confident in my competence.
Not too concerned with your [Ab] compliments.
If I gotta work twice as hard, then [Bb] so be it.
But I'ma make this happen whether you [Ab] believe it or not.
Jokers can't even see what I [Eb] got.
Type of killer combo that'll make you breathe and stop.
Still critics, you wanna doubt my [C] skills.
Stand me down, sizing me up like a value [Bm] meal.
I'm testing and I prove you value's real.
[Db] Still I say my best move like Zooland, I save you [Fm] steel.
So tired of [C] trying to please everyone.
[Fm] A million [C] different opinions.
_ [Ab] _ I'm just going [C] to be myself [Bb] whether they like it or not.
[Eb] I give it all that I got.
[Ab] They say keep on doing what you do, B.
[Bb] And maybe one day you'll end up in the movies.
And maybe [Abm] I can play Shaggy and Scooby [Eb]-Doo 3 and co-star with Angelina Jolie.
[Bb] Whoops, I meant [Abm] Jolie.
Okie [Bb] dokie.
I didn't come just to mess around and make jokes.
[B] See, I got a mission and a thing that ain't an antidote.
[G] A contradiction to the [Eb] message of Oprah [Ab] Winfrey.
Whoops, did I just say that out loud?
Well, there we [Eb] go, now it's out.
I won't be in a magazine or on [Ab] a TV show now.
But I refuse to be duped into [Eb] believing the truth is whatever you choose to [Abm] believe in.
Oh boy, here come the [Bb] protesters.
Get out your helmets and your bulletproof [B] vest.
They're coming for you if you rock the [Bb] boat.
I'm going to go against the [Gm] flow of the status [Fm] quo.
I'm so tired of [C] trying to please everyone.
Can't [Fm] do it a million, _ [C] differing opinions.
_ [Ab] I'm [C] just going [F] to be [F] myself [Bb] whether they like it or [Bbm] not.
I [Eb] give it all that I got.
[G] _ _ [Fm] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Dbm] You can't put me in a box or put me in a [Ab] genre.
I'm going to work it out like my name was Jane [Dbm] Fonda.
Came from the same city as Jeffrey [Ab] Dahmer.
I don't make me crazy.
You can ask my [Dbm] mama.
She raised me to behave and not to cause [Ab] drama.
Sorry for this one, I had to let them [Bb] have it.
The flow's still automatic.
I told you I'm back at it.
Just call me O.J.
I had to take a [Ab] stab at it.
Whoa, that's some tongue in cheek.
[Eb] Want pizza, yeah, go I make one a week.
[Ab] Put some hot sauce to the top to care for they [Eb] spicy.
Plus I'm nice with the Micey.
They like it like Mikey.
More flavorful than Hi-C.
Cooler than Ice-E.
If I was born two weeks earlier, I would have been a [E] Pisces.
[D] Couldn't have been said more [F] precisely.
Better book me [C] now before I get too [Abm] spicy.
I _ [Db] know you are entitled [Ab] to your own opinion.
[Dbm] But that don't mean that you know [Ab] how to run my business.
[Dbm] See, I'm a work in progress [Bb] that is still not finished.
Oh, I'm [D] still not finished.
[Eb] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ Alright, old school, let's see.
I had a couple verses written over the years about _ [C]
my frustrations as wanting to rap or
wanting to sing.
And a lot of time _ when people first [E] heard my music, the general comment I would get
is, hey, I wish you would just sing.
Or some people, I wish you would rap more.
And if I read reviews, it'll mess me up in the head so bad.
And so it's just about me, us being free to just be ourselves.
And the more I try to _ act or fit into a stereotype, the less free I am.
And what the world needs is us [C] to be ourselves.
We don't need carbon copies.
So _ _ it's fun and bouncy.
And here it is, old school.
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ [Dbm] _ _ [Ab] I can't believe these people, man.
_ _ [Dbm] _ _ [Ab] You can imagine how I felt when I heard the news [Dbm] that I can't rap and sing, but I had to [Ab] choose.
What?
I just looked at him and started laughing.
I [Dbm] don't think y'all understand.
Just call me [Ab] Bo Jackson.
If y'all can play sports at the same time, [Dbm] I'm pretty sure that I can sing and [Bb] can rhyme.
I'm quite confident in my competence.
Not too concerned with your [Ab] compliments.
If I gotta work twice as hard, then [Bb] so be it.
But I'ma make this happen whether you [Ab] believe it or not.
Jokers can't even see what I [Eb] got.
Type of killer combo that'll make you breathe and stop.
Still critics, you wanna doubt my [C] skills.
Stand me down, sizing me up like a value [Bm] meal.
I'm testing and I prove you value's real.
[Db] Still I say my best move like Zooland, I save you [Fm] steel.
So tired of [C] trying to please everyone.
[Fm] A million [C] different opinions.
_ [Ab] _ I'm just going [C] to be myself [Bb] whether they like it or not.
[Eb] I give it all that I got.
[Ab] They say keep on doing what you do, B.
[Bb] And maybe one day you'll end up in the movies.
And maybe [Abm] I can play Shaggy and Scooby [Eb]-Doo 3 and co-star with Angelina Jolie.
[Bb] Whoops, I meant [Abm] Jolie.
Okie [Bb] dokie.
I didn't come just to mess around and make jokes.
[B] See, I got a mission and a thing that ain't an antidote.
[G] A contradiction to the [Eb] message of Oprah [Ab] Winfrey.
Whoops, did I just say that out loud?
Well, there we [Eb] go, now it's out.
I won't be in a magazine or on [Ab] a TV show now.
But I refuse to be duped into [Eb] believing the truth is whatever you choose to [Abm] believe in.
Oh boy, here come the [Bb] protesters.
Get out your helmets and your bulletproof [B] vest.
They're coming for you if you rock the [Bb] boat.
I'm going to go against the [Gm] flow of the status [Fm] quo.
I'm so tired of [C] trying to please everyone.
Can't [Fm] do it a million, _ [C] differing opinions.
_ [Ab] I'm [C] just going [F] to be [F] myself [Bb] whether they like it or [Bbm] not.
I [Eb] give it all that I got.
[G] _ _ [Fm] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Dbm] You can't put me in a box or put me in a [Ab] genre.
I'm going to work it out like my name was Jane [Dbm] Fonda.
Came from the same city as Jeffrey [Ab] Dahmer.
I don't make me crazy.
You can ask my [Dbm] mama.
She raised me to behave and not to cause [Ab] drama.
Sorry for this one, I had to let them [Bb] have it.
The flow's still automatic.
I told you I'm back at it.
Just call me O.J.
I had to take a [Ab] stab at it.
Whoa, that's some tongue in cheek.
[Eb] Want pizza, yeah, go I make one a week.
[Ab] Put some hot sauce to the top to care for they [Eb] spicy.
Plus I'm nice with the Micey.
They like it like Mikey.
More flavorful than Hi-C.
Cooler than Ice-E.
If I was born two weeks earlier, I would have been a [E] Pisces.
[D] Couldn't have been said more [F] precisely.
Better book me [C] now before I get too [Abm] spicy.
I _ [Db] know you are entitled [Ab] to your own opinion.
[Dbm] But that don't mean that you know [Ab] how to run my business.
[Dbm] See, I'm a work in progress [Bb] that is still not finished.
Oh, I'm [D] still not finished.
[Eb] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _