Family Reunion Chords by Jill Scott

You [Am] know that ain't gentlemen!
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_ _ _ [Am] _ We at the family reunion
_ _ [G] _ _ Telling jokes and playing [Am] spades
_ [G] [A] Uncle Dave is on the [G] barbecue grill
Grandma bragging about the blanket she [D] made
[C] _ For [Am] the new baby on her [G] way
Even though the daddy ain't [Am] really ready
_ _ [D] This _ [Am] child [G] is coming _ anyway _
_ _ _ [Am] _ [G] Nissi [Am] made her [G] famous potato salad
_ Somehow it turns out [Am] green
_ [G] Maybe it's [Dm] all [Am] the [G] scallions
Could be the [D] celery
[C] _ _ But [Dm]
oh, [G] Uncle Jerome loves it _
_ _ [D] _ [C] Here [Gm] _ [G] _ _
_ [F] comes my [G] favorite cousin _
_ _ _ [Am] _ [D] He says [Am] he's doing fine
[Dm] Taking it [G] one step a day
But in my heart I know it [D] ain't that [Am] way
Can _ _
[Bm] _ [F#] _ [G] _ it stay?
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[G] It's family
_ [D] [C] And _ [Dm] oh, [D] _
[A] what [E] [G] can you say? _
Can we?
[Am] _ [G] I'm juicy, been drinking again
[Am] _ [E] _ [G] _ It's only 1.30. in the afternoon [D] _ [Am] _ _ [D] [C] Everybody [D] tiptoeing [Am] round And [G] we all know she's gonna be toe [D] up [C] soon _ [G] Saying [Am] all the [D] things we like to [G] say Hope she gets around her cousin [D] Lonnie [Am] _ [E] Cause we all know he [Am] got a little extra [G] _ Somebody on the side [Am] But [D] oh, [Am] _ _ [D] what [G] _ can you [D] say? It's family [G] _ [D] [Am] And [D] oh, _ _ _ _ [G] what can you [D] say? _ [G] _ Can we? [Am] _ _ [D] _ Oh shit Mickey and Stephen [G] are fine again _ Move out the way Somebody [D] might get [C] hurt _ Oh, look [D] at that, what happened is [Am] worse [G] _ They knocked over Helen O's lemon [Am] cake [G] You know [C] the one she [D] barely ever [G] makes _ I'm getting riled up I want them [Am] to go [Dm] But somebody turned Frankie [Am] Beverly [D] on the [G] stereo Ruby stopped rocking Shaking her good [Am] hip and bottom _ [Dm] [Am] So [G] we [Am] all fall into [G] place _ Smiling and laughing [C] But _ [G] _ [Am] oh, [D] _ _ [Am] _ [G] what can you say? It's family [Am] And [G] oh, _ [D] _ _ _ [G] what can you say? _ My [D] family [C] And [D] oh, [Am] _ [G] [D] what can you [G] say? _ _ _ It's family [D] And [Am] _ [G] oh, _ [D] _ _ _ [G] what can you say? _ _ _ _ [D] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _
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