Back To The World Chords by Curtis Mayfield

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_ Back in the [F#] world, _ _ [C#] _
back in the [F#] world, [G#m] _ _ [F#] _ _
[G#m] back in the world, _ _ _ back in the world.
_ _ [F#] Crawling through the trees, sunken up to the knees.
[C#] Fighting this damn [F#] war, wondering if the Lord knows what it's for.
[G#m] Six long years of church, [C#] and we boys was [G#m] in a hell of a mess.
I gotta keep my mind, take it slow.
Fighting hard for what I don't [F#] know.
I wanna get back home, gotta get back home.
Back to the [C#] world.
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ [G#] I had a talk with little mom, strangest face that she'd be given.
She said, Maya, it's good to see you.
My prayers must have been with you.
[C#] And now that you're back in town, [B] let me tell you, sometimes the world was wrong.
The world was never [F#] wrong.
[G#m] In this city, streets, everywhere,
_ _ you gotta be [C#] careful where you move your feet, how you [G#m] part your hair.
[F#] Do you really think God could ever forgive this life we live?
Back in the world, back in the world.
_ [G#m] Oh, oh, [C#]
oh, oh, oh, oh, [G#m] oh.
It's so hard, [C#m] it's so hard, it's so [G#m] hard.
This life is so hard.
[F#] I've been eating all this love.
[C#] Soulja Boy ain't got no [F#] job.
Back in the world.
_ _ _ [G#] Had a long stretch of sacrifice.
Getting back home will be overnight.
Child, you're a woman, that's long been gone.
The cold cold world just [C#] blasted you down.
People don't [G#m] give a damn.
[C#] People don't give a [D#m] damn.
People don't [C#] give a [F#] damn.
[C#] So [B] he's standing [G#m] here and [C#] he'll just shine.
_ _ [G#m] And get the mountain off the ground.
_ _ [F#] Talking about hard times, hard times, hard times.
_ [C#] Back in the world.
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_ [C#] This life is [B] so hard.
[F#] I've been eating [C#] all this love.
Soulja Boy ain't got no [F#] [C#] job.
Back in the world.
_ _ _ [F#] [G#m] Back in the world.
_ _ _ _ _ Back in the world.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] Back in the world.
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This life is so hard.
[C#] _ _ [G#m] It's so hard.
It's so hard.
It's so hard.
This life is [A#] so [F#] hard. _
Back in the world.
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_ [C#] We're gonna be alright, [G#m] _ we're gonna be _ [C#] alright, we're gonna [G#m] be alright
Now [C#] I'm [F#] walking on my own, _ I'm walking alone, [C#] I'm walking alone
[F#] _ Give _ _ [G#] _ me some standard honesty, simple words that seem so clear to me
Give my conscience a simple state, forgive your man for his love for [C#] me
If we're honest in this truth, _ _ _ we don't seem to know what to do
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Back in the [D#m] world
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_ _ Now I'm walking [F#] on _ [G#m] _
my own, [C#] _ [G#m] I'm walking alone, _ _ _ I'm walking alone
Give me some standard _ [F#] _
honesty, _ [C#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ [C#] simple words [F#] _ _ [G#m] that seem so clear to me
Give my conscience a simple state, forgive your man for [C#] his [F#] love for me
[G#m] If [C#] we're honest in this truth, _
[G#m] _ [C#] we don't seem to know [G#m] what to do
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