Up On The Roof Chords by Persuasions

[N] Like we all lived in the same neighborhood.
_ And on Sundays, about [Ab] 30 or 40 of us
I'd go out there and play some [Abm] football, basketball, whatever.
[B] _ _
And [Ab] I didn't know Jerry was living up the block.
Lawson [Eb] lived just [B] about four or five [C] blocks up. _
I never knew.
This guy always [Ab] used to be singing,
but I didn't know who he [B] was.
I thought he was crazy.
_ _ [Eb] You know? _
He used to always try to [Gb] tackle me,
but he couldn't get me to give it.
Yeah, walking [Cm] up and down the street every night,
singing, that's after work.
Yeah.
How you meet Brooke?
_ Well, I [Db] was walking up and down the street every night [Ab] singing.
And I was [C] working at [A] a store downtown,
[B]
and I was a singing [Ebm] elevator boy.
And he got [B] on the elevator, him and his wife.
_ _ [Ab] And [B] he said, you sing?
[Bb] And I said, well, you know, I [Abm] try.
_ _ _ [Db] And from there, we'd get together every night,
and me and him, we'd start to sing.
_ And we [C] met some more [Bb] guys in the [A] park,
and it was like 40 or 50 guys.
Then when [Ab] it weeded out, [B] the weeded out,
people started saying, [Eb]
you [Abm] guys sound like y'all
should have a group.
And there it was, you [A] know?
And then _ he introduced me [B] to Joe.
_ [A] And [Eb] then Joe introduced _ [B] me and [Bb] Jimmy to Tubo. _
And [Ab] then [B] Jimmy Dockett introduced Dusty J.
_ And there it [Bb] was.
And from there, it went to a car.
And from that point, _ the people in the [A] neighborhoods
were saying that _ we needed [E] a name.
So Jimmy [Abm] got the Bible, and he said
[A] that _
[Eb] Jesus Christ had to persuade people
to follow the religion.
[Bbm] And he said, what better name [Eb] for us than the Persuasions?
[A] And 27 [Bb] years, we are the Persuasions.
[Ab] And this old world starts getting me down.
And people are just too [Ebm] much for me to [Eb] face.
[Abm] _ _ Well, well, [F] listen.
_ [Ab] Climb way up to [F] the top of the stairs.
_ All my [Bbm] cares just [Eb] drift right into space.
[Ab] _
_ _ _ _ _ Lord, at night the stars put on a show for free.
_ Oh, Lord.
_ [F] God _ _ can share it all with me.
[Eb] _
_ I keep [Gbm] on telling you [Ab] when I come home, feeling [Fm] tired and beat.
I [Db] go up where the [Eb] air is fresh and [Ab] sweet.
Oh, _ _ Lord.
_ I get away from the hustling [Fm] crowd.
All [A] of that erratic raising [Eb] noise down in the street. _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ Well, all [Db] the room's the only place [Ab] I [Eb] know.
_ _ Well, well, [F] you just have to wish to make it [C] so.
[Ab] _ Let's go up on the roof.
Hey, loose bass guitar.
_ Down, down, down, down, [Fm] down, down, down, down, [Bbm] down, down,
down, [Eb] down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down.
[Ab] Up on the roof. All right.
And [Db] all the room, the only _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ for [F] that.
Oh, well, I _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ keep on telling you [Ab] I'd
smack down in [Fm] the middle of town.
I found [Ab] a _ paradise.
It's trouble-proof.
Up on the roof.
Oh, Lord. _
And if this world starts [F] getting me down,
there's [Db] room enough for [Eb] two.
[Ab] Up on the roof.
Up on the roof.
Up [Fm] on the roof.
Up on the [F] roof.
_ Come on, [Ab] baby.
Up on the roof.
_ Up _ [Fm] _ _
on the roof.
Everything is all right.
Up [Ab] on the roof.
Everything is all right.
Up on [Fm] the roof.
_ We're going to walk.
Up [Ab] on the roof. _ _
We're going to talk.
Up on the roof.
_ [Gbm]
We're going to sing.
[Ab] Up on the roof.
[Fm]
We're going to shout some kind of roar.
Up on the roof.
Up on the roof. _ _ _ _ _ _ _