Run-D.M.C. - Down With the King Chords
Tempo:
95.8 bpm
Chords used:
C#m
F#m
F#
E
C#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
The board is clocked, the deuces chopped, they wanna be down with the [F#] king!
[C#m] [F#m]
[C#m] Down with the king, [F#m] down with the king, [C#m] down with [F#m] the king, [C#m] [F#m] [C#m] down with the king, [F#m]
[C#] [F#m] down with the king!
[C#m] [F#m] Down with [C#] [D] the [E] [F#] king for years, about [E] ten of them, recruiting [D#m] soldiers, macking, making
[E] men of them.
Tears and [B] fear for my peers, they [C#m] risen to think that [F#] it is, it is, it's not, [E] it isn't.
Race for [F#] the board of my daughter who beats [E] her banging out.
Sheeps rocking [B] decent asleep and it's time [E] for hanging out.
Gather [F#] around the former [N] so they can ride out loud.
Send good brothers or others to never ever rock a cloud.
Is it [F#] because he's running off with [C#m] them out?
Or was he really [F#] clearly trying to play a nigga [G#m] out?
Now shut him [F#] down, the king with the [E] clown, cause all you wanna [F#] be is pinky [F#m] down.
Down with the king, down [C#] with the king, [F#m] down with the king, [C#m] down with the king, [F#m] down with
the king, down with the king, down with the king.
[C#m] [F#m] [C#] Two years ago, a friend of mine asked me to say some MC rhyme, so I said this rhyme I'm
[G#] about to say [N] the rhyme with Mecca and then it went [C#m] this way
wrecker like [F#] a Mecca, mic check on [E] a real skill map
[B] this s*** wearing Godfather [E] hats it's okay [F#] to fall later, poor [E] A's better
tell her my n***a [G] need a sweater tougher than [C#m] leather
swing another [F#m] by the kid singing I [C#m] was wet but just like [F#m] the wet one I get no
[C#m] respect money stay your own cause the other
n****s are fake from Hollis to the [F#m] big and then your dumb ass [E] is leaking
CL [F#] and DMC [E] so watch it [F#] big time way before hammer got to [E] touch it
remember the [F#] faces [C#m] and all types of places look ma no s*** laces and I'm
I wanna [F#m] be
you wanna be
[C#m] [G#] you [F#m] wanna be
[C#m] [F#m] you [C#m] [F#m] [G#] wanna be
you [F#m] wanna be
you wanna be
you wanna be
you wanna be
check it, [C#m] I'm taking the [F#] tour
I'm wrecking the [E] land
I keep it hard [F#] floor cause it's dope man
[E] these are the roughest toughest [F#] words I ever wrote
[C#m] damn, not meant for a [F#] hoe
like a [C#m] slow jam, check it, sucker
[F#] MC's could never swing with [C#] D
because of all the [F#] things that I bring with [E] me
me, only G.O. [B].D could be a king to [E] me, and if there's G.O.D. be [F#] in me then the king I'll [E] be, the microphone [D#m] is granted when [F#m] it's handed to [C#m] me I was planted on [D#m] this planet and I [F#m] plan to [C#m] MC the MC [F#m] fiends only seem to [C#] agree that I rock up a [D#m] world and a [F#m] society, [E] I rage I'm just on the [F#] stages with a tuna burst [E] I give praises from these [F#] stages to the universe [C#m] my voice is [F#] raw, my lyrics is raw I [D#] keep it hardcore like you never saw your [C#m] wannabe [D#m] you [F#] wanna [C#m] be you [D#] wanna [C#m] be [F#m] you wanna [G#] be you wanna be [F#m] you wanna be you wanna be you [C#m] wanna be you wanna be [F#m] you wanna be you wanna be you [C#m] wanna [F#m] [C#] be I'm the man you [F#] see, in the place to be I went to John Jay University [C#] and since [F#] kindergarten I acquired the knowledge, and at the 12th grade I went straight to [C#m] the college [E] down with [F#] the kings on the microphone [E] singer, but B to [F#] the R, not an R&B [C#m] singer the R to [F#] the U N-D-M [E]-C, in the fly human [F#] beings, tonight I hold [C#m] the cougar flowin' with [F#m] the folk track, hear this old brother black, pick up the pace, better yet need [C#m] the space, so let me put [F#m] my big black cookie on, into [C#m] the early [F#m] mornin' had the skins [C#m] blowin', [F#] MacGuckYo you want the [C#m] MacGuckYo I make a funky [F#] beat so we can blow, check [G#] it out keep rocks to boot, now [C#] put you in [E] a headlocker, now all [B] the yada [C#m] yada lockers on down with the kings [F#m] down with the kings [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings down with the kings down with the kings down with the kings [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings down with the kings down [C#m] with the kings [F#m] [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] [C#m] down with the kings down with the [F#m] kings [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] down with the kings [C#m] [F#m] down with the kings [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] [C#m] down [F#] with [C#m] [F#] [E] Why won't they hit [F#] me? [E] Why won't they hit [F#] me? [E] [F#] [C#m] [F#] [C#m] [F#]
[C#m] [F#m]
[C#m] [F#m] [C#m] [F#m]
[E] [F#m] [C#m]
[C#m] [F#m]
[C#m] Down with the king, [F#m] down with the king, [C#m] down with [F#m] the king, [C#m] [F#m] [C#m] down with the king, [F#m]
[C#] [F#m] down with the king!
[C#m] [F#m] Down with [C#] [D] the [E] [F#] king for years, about [E] ten of them, recruiting [D#m] soldiers, macking, making
[E] men of them.
Tears and [B] fear for my peers, they [C#m] risen to think that [F#] it is, it is, it's not, [E] it isn't.
Race for [F#] the board of my daughter who beats [E] her banging out.
Sheeps rocking [B] decent asleep and it's time [E] for hanging out.
Gather [F#] around the former [N] so they can ride out loud.
Send good brothers or others to never ever rock a cloud.
Is it [F#] because he's running off with [C#m] them out?
Or was he really [F#] clearly trying to play a nigga [G#m] out?
Now shut him [F#] down, the king with the [E] clown, cause all you wanna [F#] be is pinky [F#m] down.
Down with the king, down [C#] with the king, [F#m] down with the king, [C#m] down with the king, [F#m] down with
the king, down with the king, down with the king.
[C#m] [F#m] [C#] Two years ago, a friend of mine asked me to say some MC rhyme, so I said this rhyme I'm
[G#] about to say [N] the rhyme with Mecca and then it went [C#m] this way
wrecker like [F#] a Mecca, mic check on [E] a real skill map
[B] this s*** wearing Godfather [E] hats it's okay [F#] to fall later, poor [E] A's better
tell her my n***a [G] need a sweater tougher than [C#m] leather
swing another [F#m] by the kid singing I [C#m] was wet but just like [F#m] the wet one I get no
[C#m] respect money stay your own cause the other
n****s are fake from Hollis to the [F#m] big and then your dumb ass [E] is leaking
CL [F#] and DMC [E] so watch it [F#] big time way before hammer got to [E] touch it
remember the [F#] faces [C#m] and all types of places look ma no s*** laces and I'm
I wanna [F#m] be
you wanna be
[C#m] [G#] you [F#m] wanna be
[C#m] [F#m] you [C#m] [F#m] [G#] wanna be
you [F#m] wanna be
you wanna be
you wanna be
you wanna be
check it, [C#m] I'm taking the [F#] tour
I'm wrecking the [E] land
I keep it hard [F#] floor cause it's dope man
[E] these are the roughest toughest [F#] words I ever wrote
[C#m] damn, not meant for a [F#] hoe
like a [C#m] slow jam, check it, sucker
[F#] MC's could never swing with [C#] D
because of all the [F#] things that I bring with [E] me
me, only G.O. [B].D could be a king to [E] me, and if there's G.O.D. be [F#] in me then the king I'll [E] be, the microphone [D#m] is granted when [F#m] it's handed to [C#m] me I was planted on [D#m] this planet and I [F#m] plan to [C#m] MC the MC [F#m] fiends only seem to [C#] agree that I rock up a [D#m] world and a [F#m] society, [E] I rage I'm just on the [F#] stages with a tuna burst [E] I give praises from these [F#] stages to the universe [C#m] my voice is [F#] raw, my lyrics is raw I [D#] keep it hardcore like you never saw your [C#m] wannabe [D#m] you [F#] wanna [C#m] be you [D#] wanna [C#m] be [F#m] you wanna [G#] be you wanna be [F#m] you wanna be you wanna be you [C#m] wanna be you wanna be [F#m] you wanna be you wanna be you [C#m] wanna [F#m] [C#] be I'm the man you [F#] see, in the place to be I went to John Jay University [C#] and since [F#] kindergarten I acquired the knowledge, and at the 12th grade I went straight to [C#m] the college [E] down with [F#] the kings on the microphone [E] singer, but B to [F#] the R, not an R&B [C#m] singer the R to [F#] the U N-D-M [E]-C, in the fly human [F#] beings, tonight I hold [C#m] the cougar flowin' with [F#m] the folk track, hear this old brother black, pick up the pace, better yet need [C#m] the space, so let me put [F#m] my big black cookie on, into [C#m] the early [F#m] mornin' had the skins [C#m] blowin', [F#] MacGuckYo you want the [C#m] MacGuckYo I make a funky [F#] beat so we can blow, check [G#] it out keep rocks to boot, now [C#] put you in [E] a headlocker, now all [B] the yada [C#m] yada lockers on down with the kings [F#m] down with the kings [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings down with the kings down with the kings down with the kings [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings down with the kings down [C#m] with the kings [F#m] [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] [C#m] down with the kings down with the [F#m] kings [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] down with the kings [C#m] [F#m] down with the kings [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] [C#m] down [F#] with [C#m] [F#] [E] Why won't they hit [F#] me? [E] Why won't they hit [F#] me? [E] [F#] [C#m] [F#] [C#m] [F#]
[C#m] [F#m]
[C#m] [F#m] [C#m] [F#m]
[E] [F#m] [C#m]
Key:
C#m
F#m
F#
E
C#
C#m
F#m
F#
The board is clocked, the deuces chopped, they wanna be down with the [F#] king!
_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ _
[C#m] Down with the king, [F#m] down with the king, _ [C#m] down with [F#m] the king, [C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ [C#m] down with the king, [F#m] _ _
[C#] _ [F#m] down with the king!
_ [C#m] _ [F#m] Down with [C#] _ [D] the _ _ [E] [F#] king for years, about [E] ten of them, recruiting [D#m] soldiers, macking, making
[E] men of them.
Tears and [B] fear for my peers, they [C#m] risen to think that [F#] it is, it is, it's not, [E] it isn't.
Race for [F#] the board of my daughter who beats [E] her banging out.
Sheeps rocking [B] decent asleep and it's time [E] for hanging out.
Gather [F#] around the former [N] so they can ride out loud.
Send good brothers or others to never ever rock a cloud.
Is it [F#] because he's running off with [C#m] them out?
Or was he really [F#] clearly trying to play a nigga [G#m] out?
Now shut him [F#] down, the king with the [E] clown, cause all you wanna [F#] be is pinky [F#m] down.
Down with the king, down _ [C#] with the king, [F#m] _ down with the king, _ [C#m] down with the king, [F#m] down with
the king, down with the king, _ down with the king. _ _
[C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ [C#] Two years ago, a friend of mine asked me to say some MC rhyme, so I said this rhyme I'm
[G#] about to say [N] the rhyme with Mecca and then it went [C#m] this way
wrecker like [F#] a Mecca, mic check on [E] a real skill map
[B] this s*** wearing Godfather [E] hats it's okay [F#] to fall later, poor [E] A's better
tell her my n***a [G] need a sweater tougher than [C#m] leather
swing another [F#m] by the kid singing I [C#m] was wet but just like [F#m] the wet one I get no
[C#m] respect money stay your own cause the other
n****s are fake from Hollis to the [F#m] big and then your dumb ass [E] is leaking
CL [F#] and DMC [E] so watch it [F#] big time way before hammer got to [E] touch it
remember the [F#] faces [C#m] and all types of places look ma no s*** laces and I'm
I wanna _ [F#m] be
_ you wanna be
[C#m] _ [G#] you [F#m] wanna _ be
_ [C#m] _ _ [F#m] you [C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [G#] wanna be
you [F#m] wanna be
you wanna be
you wanna be
you wanna be
check it, [C#m] I'm taking the [F#] tour
I'm wrecking the [E] land
I keep it hard [F#] floor cause it's dope man
[E] these are the roughest toughest [F#] words I ever wrote
[C#m] damn, not meant for a [F#] hoe
like a [C#m] slow jam, check it, sucker
[F#] MC's could never swing with [C#] D
because of all the [F#] things that I bring with [E] me
me, only G.O. [B].D could be a king to [E] me, and if there's G.O.D. be [F#] in me then the king I'll [E] be, the microphone [D#m] is granted when [F#m] it's handed to [C#m] me I was planted on [D#m] this planet and I [F#m] plan to [C#m] MC the MC [F#m] fiends only seem to [C#] agree that I rock up a [D#m] world and a [F#m] society, [E] I rage I'm just on the [F#] stages with a tuna burst [E] I give praises from these [F#] stages to the universe [C#m] my voice is [F#] raw, my lyrics is raw I [D#] keep it hardcore like you never saw your [C#m] wannabe [D#m] you [F#] wanna [C#m] be you [D#] wanna [C#m] be [F#m] you wanna [G#] be you wanna be [F#m] you wanna be you wanna be you [C#m] wanna be you wanna be [F#m] you wanna be you wanna be you [C#m] wanna _ [F#m] _ [C#] be I'm the man you [F#] see, in the place to be I went to John Jay University [C#] and since [F#] kindergarten I acquired the knowledge, and at the 12th grade I went straight to [C#m] the college [E] down with [F#] the kings on the microphone [E] singer, but B to [F#] the R, not an R&B [C#m] singer the R to [F#] the U N-D-M [E]-C, in the fly human [F#] beings, tonight I hold [C#m] the cougar flowin' with [F#m] the folk track, hear this old brother black, pick up the pace, better yet need [C#m] the space, so let me put [F#m] my big black cookie on, into [C#m] the early [F#m] mornin' had the skins [C#m] blowin', [F#] MacGuckYo you want the [C#m] MacGuckYo I make a funky [F#] beat so we can blow, check [G#] it out keep rocks to boot, now [C#] put you in [E] a headlocker, now all [B] the yada [C#m] yada lockers on down with the kings [F#m] _ down with the kings _ [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings down with the kings down with the kings down with the kings [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings down with the kings down [C#m] with the kings [F#m] _ [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] _ [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] _ [C#m] down with the kings down with the [F#m] kings [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] down with the kings _ [C#m] _ [F#m] down with the kings [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] _ [C#m] down _ [F#] with [C#m] _ _ [F#] _ [E] Why won't they hit [F#] me? [E] Why won't they hit [F#] me? _ [E] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#] _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
[C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ [E] _ [F#m] _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ _
[C#m] Down with the king, [F#m] down with the king, _ [C#m] down with [F#m] the king, [C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ [C#m] down with the king, [F#m] _ _
[C#] _ [F#m] down with the king!
_ [C#m] _ [F#m] Down with [C#] _ [D] the _ _ [E] [F#] king for years, about [E] ten of them, recruiting [D#m] soldiers, macking, making
[E] men of them.
Tears and [B] fear for my peers, they [C#m] risen to think that [F#] it is, it is, it's not, [E] it isn't.
Race for [F#] the board of my daughter who beats [E] her banging out.
Sheeps rocking [B] decent asleep and it's time [E] for hanging out.
Gather [F#] around the former [N] so they can ride out loud.
Send good brothers or others to never ever rock a cloud.
Is it [F#] because he's running off with [C#m] them out?
Or was he really [F#] clearly trying to play a nigga [G#m] out?
Now shut him [F#] down, the king with the [E] clown, cause all you wanna [F#] be is pinky [F#m] down.
Down with the king, down _ [C#] with the king, [F#m] _ down with the king, _ [C#m] down with the king, [F#m] down with
the king, down with the king, _ down with the king. _ _
[C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ [C#] Two years ago, a friend of mine asked me to say some MC rhyme, so I said this rhyme I'm
[G#] about to say [N] the rhyme with Mecca and then it went [C#m] this way
wrecker like [F#] a Mecca, mic check on [E] a real skill map
[B] this s*** wearing Godfather [E] hats it's okay [F#] to fall later, poor [E] A's better
tell her my n***a [G] need a sweater tougher than [C#m] leather
swing another [F#m] by the kid singing I [C#m] was wet but just like [F#m] the wet one I get no
[C#m] respect money stay your own cause the other
n****s are fake from Hollis to the [F#m] big and then your dumb ass [E] is leaking
CL [F#] and DMC [E] so watch it [F#] big time way before hammer got to [E] touch it
remember the [F#] faces [C#m] and all types of places look ma no s*** laces and I'm
I wanna _ [F#m] be
_ you wanna be
[C#m] _ [G#] you [F#m] wanna _ be
_ [C#m] _ _ [F#m] you [C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [G#] wanna be
you [F#m] wanna be
you wanna be
you wanna be
you wanna be
check it, [C#m] I'm taking the [F#] tour
I'm wrecking the [E] land
I keep it hard [F#] floor cause it's dope man
[E] these are the roughest toughest [F#] words I ever wrote
[C#m] damn, not meant for a [F#] hoe
like a [C#m] slow jam, check it, sucker
[F#] MC's could never swing with [C#] D
because of all the [F#] things that I bring with [E] me
me, only G.O. [B].D could be a king to [E] me, and if there's G.O.D. be [F#] in me then the king I'll [E] be, the microphone [D#m] is granted when [F#m] it's handed to [C#m] me I was planted on [D#m] this planet and I [F#m] plan to [C#m] MC the MC [F#m] fiends only seem to [C#] agree that I rock up a [D#m] world and a [F#m] society, [E] I rage I'm just on the [F#] stages with a tuna burst [E] I give praises from these [F#] stages to the universe [C#m] my voice is [F#] raw, my lyrics is raw I [D#] keep it hardcore like you never saw your [C#m] wannabe [D#m] you [F#] wanna [C#m] be you [D#] wanna [C#m] be [F#m] you wanna [G#] be you wanna be [F#m] you wanna be you wanna be you [C#m] wanna be you wanna be [F#m] you wanna be you wanna be you [C#m] wanna _ [F#m] _ [C#] be I'm the man you [F#] see, in the place to be I went to John Jay University [C#] and since [F#] kindergarten I acquired the knowledge, and at the 12th grade I went straight to [C#m] the college [E] down with [F#] the kings on the microphone [E] singer, but B to [F#] the R, not an R&B [C#m] singer the R to [F#] the U N-D-M [E]-C, in the fly human [F#] beings, tonight I hold [C#m] the cougar flowin' with [F#m] the folk track, hear this old brother black, pick up the pace, better yet need [C#m] the space, so let me put [F#m] my big black cookie on, into [C#m] the early [F#m] mornin' had the skins [C#m] blowin', [F#] MacGuckYo you want the [C#m] MacGuckYo I make a funky [F#] beat so we can blow, check [G#] it out keep rocks to boot, now [C#] put you in [E] a headlocker, now all [B] the yada [C#m] yada lockers on down with the kings [F#m] _ down with the kings _ [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings down with the kings down with the kings down with the kings [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings down with the kings down [C#m] with the kings [F#m] _ [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] _ [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] _ [C#m] down with the kings down with the [F#m] kings [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] down with the kings _ [C#m] _ [F#m] down with the kings [C#m] down with the [F#m] kings [C#m] down with the kings [F#m] _ [C#m] down _ [F#] with [C#m] _ _ [F#] _ [E] Why won't they hit [F#] me? [E] Why won't they hit [F#] me? _ [E] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#] _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
[C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ [E] _ [F#m] _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
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