Chords for Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Be For Real (Official Audio)

_ _ _ Hey lady, can I say something to you for a minute, [Bb] _ _ [Gm] please?
No [G] now before [Gm] you take your coat off.
That's _ _ _ I've got [F] something to tell you see what I have to say
It's so very important to [A] our relationship
[Fm] _ _ _ Why is it every time we go out on the town and get [Bb] around my friends?
_ _ _ [G] Man, you're always talking [Gm] about what you got
_ Yeah
_ [C] What I done [F] bought for you?
_ How much money I made?
[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] And what school [Gm] our children go to?
_ _ _ [G] all
[Cm] _ fancy clothes and
_ big pretty [F] cars and
_ big diamond rings and the [Cm] fantastic mink [Fm] coats
_ _ _ You for real? _
[Gm] _ No, I don't think you are
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[Cm] Sit down now.
No, I don't say nothing.
[F] You see wait a minute.
That's your problem
_ [Fm] That is your problem.
You're always saying the wrong thing at the right time _
[Gm] _ _ you see I
Don't [Cm] know how to explain it to you.
_ The best I can tell [F] you is
What my mother told me as I was coming up _
[Fm] _ _ _ She used to say son _
[Gm] chances go round
_ _ She's saying [G] the same people that you [Cm] meet 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
[Bb] They come out the party 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
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talking about Harry Joe and Nick and Bobby _ _
[Gm] and what they ain't got _ _ [G] _
[Cm] and they live down in the lower development homes and _ _
[F] _ You won't even help you won't even buy a drink.
[G] Is [Fm] that any way to be?
_ _ _ _ If you're [Gm] gonna post
Post around somebody that has what you [G] have _
[Gm] _ Don't make your own brothers and sisters feel bad
[F] _ _ _ You see [F] listen, I
[Fm] _ _ Know, you know what?
I'm talking about because
[Gm] From time to time I can remember you coming to me putting your head on my shoulder and crying.
Oh Papa why?
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[F] _ _ Why why don't nobody want to be my friend?
[Fm] _ _ You told me a long time ago.
You said [Gm] Papa.
What am I doing?
_ _ _ [G] I
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 and listen to me.
[Fm] Don't 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 I _ _
[Gm] _ _ can't very much blame her [G] _ _
[Cm] as much as it hurts me
It hurts to see people going [F] around behind our backs
Saying that his [Fm] woman this and his woman that and she ate this she ate that I
[Gm] Want to be proud of you mama?
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_ I want to be proud [Eb] of you _ _ _
[F] _ _ Listen as long as you live [Fm] _
as _ long as you live [Ab] _
[Gm] whether you with me or not
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[Eb] Yes, my address
_ _ Hey, [Fm] baby
_ [Ab] Hey, baby _ _ _
[Fm] _ What you should be doing is get down on [Bb] your knees every night I _ _ [Bb] get a man [Eb] about for being blessed
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_ _ _ Can't let you go chasing my [Bb] friends away _ _ _ [Bb] because of the silly [Eb] and stupid things you say _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ Hey, baby
_ You better dig yourself now woman
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_ Put people down and less less than you _
It just don't pay Hey, [C] yeah _
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