Chords for Raphael Saadiq - Grown Folks

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[Am] _ I'm [Em] talking to the whole world, and the [Am] educated pool.
We [G] always talk about the youth, now let's talk [Am] about you.
_ [E] We all have _ _
[Am] responsibilities, [Em] _ spending hundreds on progress,
[Am] learning skills and [Em] fees.
Sometimes you have to let the [Am] kids see [G] just who their father is,
so [Am] they can see.
[Em] We can't always wear [Am] the cool shoes,
[Em] cause the kids want to wear the cool [Am] shoes too.
Help the grown [Em] folks, _ _ _ [Am] they need more help than [Em] the children do.
_ Help [Am] the grown folks, [E] _ _ _ _ [Am]
they need more help than [Em] the children do. _
[Am] Help the grown [Em] folks, _ _ _ [Am] they need more help than [Em] the children do. _
[Am] Help the grown [Em] folks, _ _ _ [Am]
they need more [Em] help than the children _ do. _
[A] The [Em] father's a sub-one gangster, and the son is [A] too.
_ [Em] The mother's a working lady, and she can't [A] control them fools.
[Em] The daughter loves her mother, and her father and brother too.
But she really wants to go to college [Am] for what she used to do.
[Em] She knows there's gonna be [Am] some debt with this.
[G] But she got caught up in a [Am] bad relationship,
[Em] but her father was nowhere around [A] to hold her [Em] hand,
so she chose a pit. _
[Am] Help the grown [Em] folks, _ _ _ [Am] they need more help than [Em] the children do.
Help [Am] the grown folks, [Em] _ _ _ _
[Am] they need more [Em] help than the children do. _
[Am] Help the grown [Em] folks, _ _ _ [Am] they need more help than [Em] the children do.
Help [Am] the grown [Em] folks, _ _ _ [Am]
they need more [Em] help than the children do. _ _
[C] _ You [Em] got your religion, and I [C] got mine.
Or maybe [Em] you don't, and you're feeling just [C] fine.
We all [Em] call them different names, but we have all the same sins.
You know what I'm talking about.
You [Am] reap what you sow.
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[Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ Help [Am] the grown [Em] folks, _ _ _ [Am]
they need more [Em] help than the children do. _
[Am] Help the grown [Em] folks, _ _ _ [Am] they need more help than [Em] the children _ do.
Help [Am] the grown folks, [Em] _ _ _ _
[Am] they need more help than [Em] the children do.
Help the grown folks, they need more help than the children do. _
[A] Help the grown [Em] folks.
Help them, Father God. _
[A] _ _ _ [G] Father God, help these small people. _
[A] _ _ [D] Sometimes these small people [E] act worse than their children.
[Am] _ _ [Em] They need more help than the children do.
That's [Am] true.
_ _ [Em] _ Walk your kids to school.
[Am] _ _ [G] Show them kids that you can be a man. _
[Am] _ _ [E] So they know how to be children.
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Let the kids [Em] be children, walk their children. _ _
[Am] _ Don't [Em] make your kids be a man or your daughter be a [Am] lady
when she's only [Em] 10 years old? _ _
[Am] _ Come with [Em] daughter's hair.
Come with [C] son's hair.
Take your [G] son to a baseball game.
Take your daughter [Am] to a basketball game.
[Em] _ _ _ Forget about [Am] that big corporate meeting sometime.
[G] Forget about that big vacation.
[Am] If you go on a [B] vacation, _ take [Am] your kids with you.
[Em] Don't leave them with that nanny.
You never know what that [Am] nanny's doing to your kids.
[Em] _ Forget about that big Beverly Hills [Am] mansion.
_ [Em] Get in for your kids. _ _
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