Chords for Gansta's Paradise 1995 Billboard Awards

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_ And I'd like to acknowledge Kenny G as Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Artist of the Year for the
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_ Thank you very much.
It is a tremendous honor and it means even more coming from you, Luther.
Oh, I appreciate that. Mercy boat.
Okay, but we're here to give out an award.
This is for the best single of the year.
This award is for the best single of the year and you're going to tell them about it.
Let's see who the [Ab] four finalists are. _
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_ [Cm] _ _ _ [F] _ KLC, Creep. _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [N] This record is based on Pastime Paradise from Stevie Wonder's songs in the key of life.
The number one single of the year, _
[C] _ _ [Db] Gangsta's Paradise [N] from Coolio and LV. _
[Ab] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [G] Billboard [C] 1995. _
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[Ab] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of [G] death, I take a look at my [Eb] life and realize
that I'm not the only one that's been left.
I just know [Ab] you left because I've been blasting and laughing so [G] long that even my mama thinks
that my mind is [Ab] gone.
But I ain't never crossed [Fm] the man that didn't deserve [G] it.
Me be treated like [C] a punk, you know it doesn't [Ab] hurt her.
You better watch [Fm] how you're talking and where [G] you're walking or you and your [C] homies might
be lying and [Ab] choking.
I really hate to [C] trip but I kind of float.
[G] As they quote, I see [Cm] myself in the pistol smoke.
[Ab] Fool, I'm the kind of [C] cheater that her homies want to [G] be like on my knees in the [Cm] night.
Saying prayers in the [Ab] street light.
Prince living most down-to [G]-earth life is living in the [Eb] Gangsta's Paradise.
[Ab] Prince living most down-to-earth [G] life is living in the Gangsta's Paradise.
[Ab] Look at the [Fm] situation they got me facing.
[G] I can't live a normal [C] life.
I was raised by the [Ab] state.
So I gotta be [Fm] done with the hood team.
[G] Too much television [C] watching got me chasing dreams.
[Ab] I'm an educated [F] fool with money on my [G] mind.
Like a lemon in my [C] hand and a gleam in my [Ab] eye.
I'm a low-doubt, [F] fixed, set, tripping [G] banger.
And my homies is dead [C] so don't arise my anger.
[Ab] Fool, death, pain, [Fm] nothing but a heartbeat [Bm] away.
I'm living life to a [G] dia.
What can I [Fm] say?
I'm 23, never will I live to see.
[B] Twenty-fourth the way things is [C] going, I don't know.
[Ab] Tell me, why [F] are we [G] so blind [C] to see [Ab] that the ones [Fm] we hurt
[G] are you [C] and me?
[Ab] Dissipation, _ [Bb] race relations, _ [Ab] constellation.
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[Ab] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [F] Misapplication, [G] determination, [Ab] imitation, [Gm] miscreation.
[Fm] _ [N] To the evil side.
[Ab] Prince living most down-to [G]-earth life, never made it to a [Eb] lifetime [Ab] paradise.
Prince living most down [G]-to-earth life, never made it to a lifetime paradise.
[Ab] Power and [F] the money, money and the [G] power.
Minute after [C] minute, hour after [Ab] hour.
[F] Everybody's running, but half of them ain't [G] looking.
It's going on in the [C] kitchen, but I don't know [Ab] what's cooking.
They say I got [D] to learn, but nobody's here to [G] teach me.
And they can't [C] understand it.
How can [Ab] they reach me?
I guess [F] they can't, I guess they [G] won't, I guess they front.
[C] That's what a normal life is all [Ab] about.
Prince living most down [G]-to-earth life, living in a [Eb] lifetime [Ab] paradise.
Prince living most down-to-earth [G] life, living in a gangsters paradise.
[Ab] Prince living most down-to-earth [G] life, living in a [Eb] lifetime paradise.
[Ab] Prince living most down-to-earth [G] life, living in a gangsters paradise.
[Ab] Tell me why are we [G] so [Eb] blind to see [Ab] that the ones we hurt [G] are you and me?
[Ab] Tell me why are we [G] so blind [Eb] to see [Ab] that the ones we hurt [G] are you and me?
[Ab] Prince living most down [G]-to-earth life, living in a [Eb] lifetime [Ab] paradise.
Prince living most down [G]-to-earth life, living in a gangsters paradise.
[Ab] _ Just start living your [G] life, living for [Eb] the future paradise.
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[C] _ [N] Ain't no gangsters living in paradise.
[Ab] Ain't no [N] racists living in paradise.
_ Ain't no gangsters living in paradise.
[Ab] Ain't no racists living in paradise.
Ain't no [G] gangsters living [Eb] in [Ab] paradise.
[Bb] Ain't no [Ab] racists living in paradise.
Ain't no [G] gangsters living [Eb] in [C] paradise.
Ain't no [Em] racists living [F] in paradise.
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