Chords for Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes "Be For Real'

_ _ _ _ _ Hey lady, can I say something to you for a minute, [Gm] _ please?
_ No now [G] [Gm] before you take your coat off.
That's _ _
I've got something to tell [F] you see what I have to say is so very important to our [A] relationship
[Fm] _ _ _ Why is it every time we go out on the town to get around [Gm] my friends?
_ _ Man, you're always [Gm] talking about what you got
_ Hey
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What I done bought [F] for you?
_ _ How much money I made?
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ And what school our [Gm] children go to _ _ _
at [Cm] all
fancy clothes and
big [Gm] pretty cars [F] and
big diamond rings and the [A] fantastic mink [Fm] coats
_ _ _ You for real?
_ [Gm] _ No, I don't think you are _ _
[G] _ _ [Gm] Sit down now.
No, I [Cm] don't say nothing.
You [F] see wait a minute.
That's your problem _
That is [Fm] your problem you're always saying the wrong thing at the right time
_ _ [Gm] _ _ You see _ I don't know [Cm] how to explain it
[Gm] _ _ the best I [C] can tell you is
What [Gm] my mother told me as I was coming up
[Em] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ She used to say son
[Ab] chances [Gm] go round
_ _ _ She's saying the [G] same people that you meet [Cm] going up
_ _ You make the [C] same old faces [F] coming down
_ Yeah
Tell the truth
[Fm] _ _ _ _ You see people that day [Bb] they come out man apart
They come out the party [G] man.
They didn't come out [Cm] to hear all that job mess you talking about _
_ [F] You stand up in the corner with a bottle of champagne
[Fm] Talking about Harry Joe dick Bobby _
_ _ [Gm] and what they ain't got and _
[G] _ [Cm] they live down in the lower development homes and
_ _ [F] _ You won't even help you won't even buy a drink.
[G] Is that [Fm] any way to be? _ _ _ _ _
If you're gonna [Gm] boast boast around somebody that has what you [G] have
_ [Cm] _ Don't make your own brothers and sisters feel bad
_ [F] _ _ _ you see [Eb] listen, I
[Fm] _ _ know you know what I'm talking about because
[Gm] From time to time I can remember you coming to me put your head [G] on my shoulder and [Eb] crying.
Oh Papa why? _
_ _ [F] _ _ Why why don't nobody want to be my brother?
[Fm] _ _ You told me a long [Ab] time ago.
You said [Gm] mama.
What am I doing?
_ _ I [G] didn't want to tell you that I [Cm] thought you'd have sense enough to realize what you're doing, but I see you don't
_ [F] _ _ _ _ Sit down [Cm] and listen to me.
[Fm] No sit down _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ You see people are too sensitive today
[G] _ _ [Cm] They don't want to hear all that job.
You talking man
_ _ [Dm] You see they don't want to hear about what you got because they trying to get it to
[Fm] _ _ Tell it you _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ I can't very much blame them
[G] _ _ [Cm] As much as it hurts me
It hurts to see people going [F] around behind our backs
Saying that just [Fm] woman this his woman that and she ain't this she [Ab] ain't that I
[Gm] Want to be proud of you, mama. _ _
[G] _ [Cm] _ _ I
Want to be proud of you
[Gm] _ _ _ Listen [F] as [Eb] long as you live
[Fm] _ _ _ As long [G] as you live
[Ab] _ [Gm] Whether you with me or not
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_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ should have no attitude of the living [Gm] good _ _ _ _
No, if [Eb] you're smartly dressed _ _ _
[Fm] Hey, baby.
[Ab] Hey, baby _ _
_ _ [Fm] _ What you should be doing is getting down on your [Bb] knees every night
_ _ And thank you the man [Eb] above for being blessed _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Fm] _ _ I can't let you go on chasing my friends [Bb] away _ _ _ because of the [Eb] silly and stupid things you say _ _ _
[Fm] My baby, _ hey, baby _
_ _ You better dig yourself down woman
[Bb] _ _ Put people down is less less than you
[Eb] _ It just don't pay _ [C] Hey, yeah
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