Chords for Palmdale

_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ Yeah, yeah.
[Bb] Just like bums we used to stay in the slums of [Ab] L.A.
By the way, gang bangers killing each other for reps, selling rock cocaine on my doorsteps.
[Bb] Had a bar to bounce, plus a bike to ride, but my mama never [Ab] would let me play outside.
But when I got enrolled in elementary school, started banging like a fucking fool.
So cool [Bb] throwing up gang signs to the gangsta big.
Shot a enemy [Ab] from across the street.
Mama came home, said she got a good job.
Daddy did too.
Now they don't [Bb] squad financially.
We improving.
Two months later, [Ab] son, we moving.
No more ducking from shotgun shells.
Bought a two-story house in East Palmdale.
[Bb] Give it to me now.
Palmdale, [Ab] come back to me.
I need you and I love [Bb] you, baby.
Palmdale, [Ab] come back to me.
Check it out, check it out, check it out.
[Bb] No more reps and no more rotis.
Living next door [Ab] to football coaches.
Now I got a new place to sell my crap.
Now I got little white kids to jack.
[Bb] I stopped wearing blue, wasn't tripping on red.
Too busy [Ab] squabbling with the skinheads.
Stupid questions distract the class.
Rubbing little white girls on the [Bb] ass.
I didn't really care about past the film.
I knew I was headed [Ab] for the NFL until the playoff game.
Shoulder got hurt.
I thought about my future laying in the [Bb] dirt.
I can't jump.
I can't flinch.
Superstar [Abm] player.
Riding a bench.
Graduated from school.
Don't make me laugh.
I got an F-piece in basic math.
[Bb] Give it to me now.
Palmdale, [Ab] come back to me.
I gotta do one song for my neighborhood.
[Bb] _ _ [Ab] Palmdale, come back to me.
Uh, uh, check it out.
[Bb] I knew I couldn't make it in the white man's world.
So I bought me some [Ab] keys and a jerry curl.
I knew I couldn't make it to the NFL.
I went to East Pondville and started slanging Yale [Bb] for show.
I was making crazy dough.
Should've dropped out of school [Ab] a long time ago.
Bought a cell phone like a nerd.
Now I deliver like Pizza [Bb] Hut.
I drunk whiskey and Bacardi.
I sold dope [Ab] to anybody.
Me and my hoes sold dubs and dimes.
Took turn bussing rhymes just to pass the time.
[Bb] A white man drove up to my spot.
He said, hey homeboy, [Ab] what you got?
I put a fat rock inside his hand.
I bought 25 shirts, jumped out the bank.
[Bb] Get out, punk.
Palmdale, come [Ab] back to me.
I need you and I love [Bb] me, baby.
Palmdale, [Abm] come back to me.
[Eb] Check it out, check it out, check it out.
[Bb] Can't get drunk, can't get blunted.
LA [Ab] County, 9500.
Crips wanna take my all stars.
Bloods wanna eat my snicker bars.
[Bb] Them death wolves don't want none.
But the Mexicans [Abm] straight on want them essays.
I throw the sack.
That essay's always trying to test me.
[Bb] So I jumped off the bed cause I ain't no punk.
Jammed his [Ab] head up against the bump.
Sucked that YOLO in his chin.
Black motherfucker scared to jump [Bb] in.
Sheriff broke it up when we hit the floor.
I kept talking shit [Ab] cause I want some more.
Back in town, we get along with the brown.
Now I'm in jail, they trying to beat me down.
[Bbm] Jealous, hell, but I'll adapt.
Won't hesitate [Ab] to get in the scrap cause I'm down for mine.
And that's for certain.
Sitting in the hole, my knuckles hurting.
[Bb] _ Palmdale, come [Ab] back to me.
I need you and I love [Bb] you, baby.
_ [Abm] Palmdale, come back to me.
Yeah, check it out, homeboy.
[Bb] Now I got a fucked up life.
Two bad kings [Ab] and a nagging wife.
Dead-end job at the airport.
Check two shits, pay the house loan, [Bb] turn on the TV.
Then I see different [Ab] homeboys that went to school with me.
Playing in the NFL.
We used to kick back at East Palmdale.
[Bb] Rodney Williams, Lorenz Tenk.
Zeno Plate, [Ab] Colorado State.
I wish my homeboys much success.
But at the same time, I still get depressed.
[Bb] Walking through the wind with a cup full of gin.
Thinking about [Ab] things I coulda, woulda, shoulda been.
I wipe my tears, sip my beers.
Wish I coulda looked at my peers.
[Bb] Palmdale, _ [Ab] come back to me.
I need you and I love [Bb] you, baby.
Palmdale, [Ab] come back to me.
Cause that's where my heartache [Bb] began.
_ _ [Ab] Heartache began. _ _
[Bb] _ Palmdale, [Ab] come back to me.
I need you and I love [Bb] you, baby.
Palmdale, [Ab] come back to me.
Cause that's where my heartache [Bb] began.
_ _ [Ab] _ Heartache began. _ _
[Bb] _ _ [Ab] Palmdale, come back to me.
All the homeboys on the football team, where y'all at, man?
[Bb] Palmdale, come back to me.
Wherever you at in the world, I don't care if you're in [Ab] Japan, Africa.
You know how we used to do it, man.
Yo, let [Bb] me get a palm.
Yo, let me get a damn.
[Ab] Yo, what do we sell?
Yo, let me get [Bb] a palm.
Yo, let me get a damn.
[Abm] Yo, what do we sell?
Yo, where we finna go?
Yo, let [Bb] me get a palm.
Yo, let me get a damn.
[Ab] Yo, what do we sell?
Yo, where we finna go?
Yo, let [Bb] me get a palm.
Yo, let me get a damn.
[Ab] Yo, what do we sell?
Yo, where we finna go?
[Bb] Damn. Oh, God.
[Ab] Yeah.
Palmdale.
Hey, come on.
Everybody just clap, OK?
[Bb] Damn.
Huh, huh, huh, [Ab] huh.
Palmdale.
Come on, come on, come on.
Back up, back up, back up.
[Bb] Palmdale.
What?
What?
[Ab] What?
Palmdale.
Huh.
Yo, where's AD?
Come on, [Bb] y'all.
Damn.
Ha ha.
Where them Falcons at?
[Ab] What?
Palmdale. Huh.
What's with the killer?
He now ain't no more but a fat man.
[Bb] Damn.
Huh.
Rocking.
Yeah.
What?
[Ab] Palmdale.
Oh.
Oh.
Palm, palm, palm, palm, [Bb] palm, palmdale.
Oh.
Oh.
[Eb] Oh.
Oh.
[Ab] _ _ _ _